How to Use fire blight in a Sentence

fire blight

noun

• What mattered was that the plant was resistant to fire blight.
  — CBS News, 22 Apr. 2022
• But the orchards were threatened by a new disease called fire blight.
  — Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
• The limiting factor on pears is the disease fire blight.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• Winter is the best time to trim off branches infected with fire blight.
  — Miri Talabac., Baltimore Sun, 21 Dec. 2022
• This past year, my flowering quince shrub suffered some dieback from what I was told was fire blight.
  — Miri Talabac., Baltimore Sun, 21 Dec. 2022
• Spray dormant fruit trees now to prevent leaf curl, fire blight, downy mildew, aphids, scale and other issues in spring and summer.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2022
• George Sundin, a fruit-tree pathologist at Michigan State University, said in 2019, about fire blight, the most recent major threat to apples.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 June 2020
• Answer: Put your pear tree on a lean diet to prevent excessive growth that is often affected by a disease known as fire blight.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Feb. 2021
• Originally, they were introduced to save a valuable crop of pear trees that suffered from a destructive disease known as fire blight.
  — Carrie Blackmore Smith, Cincinnati.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Global warming is turbocharging fire blight, the scourge of apple orchards, pushing the fungal disease further and further north.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 24 Nov. 2022
• The Callery pear trees were once desirable ornamental trees but are now showing signs of fire blight, an internal bacterial disease, Graf said.
  — Linda Girardi, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2022
• Copper is a fungicide and bactericide that controls diseases like bacterial blight, fire blight and Nectria canker.
  — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• Pruning encourages vigorous regrowth, and that new growth would be highly susceptible to fire blight.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 26 Jan. 2018
• The variety Orient probably offers the best compromise between a quality pear with good resistance to fire blight.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2018
• Pineapple is a popular variety for its quality fruit (better for cooking than fresh eating) and resistance to fire blight, a bacterial disease that causes flowers and leaves at the ends of branches to suddenly turn black as if burned.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2021
• For example, newer cultivars of flowering crabapple trees are usually resistant to apple scab and fire blight, diseases that disfigure many older trees.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2021
• Rapid regrowth fosters fire blight bacterial infection.
  — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 30 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024