How to Use blighted in a Sentence

blighted

adjective
  • Amherst will place the homes on vacant lots or sites of blighted properties.
    — Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • The bottom line is that things are looking up for the blighted landscape that is bond land.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2022
  • If that happens, the few places that manage to hold on will be stuck in a blighted and empty mall.
    — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2021
  • At the crux of the lawsuit is a debate over what qualifies as blighted.
    — Shayndi Raice, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • There has been research into the effects on home values when there's a blighted house on a block.
    — Lee Schafer, Star Tribune, 30 May 2021
  • That plan supported new housing and business in what was a blighted area.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026
  • Across the street was an immense complex ringed by balconies painted a blighted orange and green.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
  • Today, the city’s downtown is a patchwork of blighted storefronts.
    — Debra Kamin, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Even the most blighted terrain can recover and return to wilderness in time.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The site fell into neglect and became a blighted public nuisance.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • In North Braddock, there are 1,040 blighted parcels.
    — Tory Wegerski, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Evict them and the land bank could add to the city's homeless population and its enormous stock of vacant and blighted buildings.
    — Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The model is now crumbling, leaving tenants in blighted homes and investors without their payout.
    — Linda Poon, Bloomberg, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The city bought 10 acres of what had been the site of a drive-in movie theater, a blighted grocery store and the surrounding parking lot.
    — Lynn Thompson, The Seattle Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Her main concern is the vacant and blighted building next to her shop at 3844 Broadway.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The blighted Naval base in the Bywater is on track to become an affordable housing project.
    — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025
  • An appraisal on file with the city for the development argues the block full or 100-year-old houses is blighted.
    — Allison Kite, kansascity, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Redlining maps at the time labeled the area as blighted and hazardous due to its concentration of Black residents.
    — Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2022
  • Police Chief James Craig believes the women could have been lured into blighted houses, raped and killed.
    — Fox News, 8 June 2019
  • In the 2000s, the city sought to aggressively purchase and raze blighted structures.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2024
  • Also last year, the casino gave the city of Gary $3 million for the demolition of blighted structures.
    — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The cities are taking distinctly different approaches, but central to the equation for all three is what to do with the dozens of blighted motels along the route.
    — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
  • In this case a great company wanted to be there and was ready to offer solid jobs in a blighted area, and New York punches the gift horse in the mouth!
    — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • On Friday, Melton said his goal was to start demolishing blighted homes in Aetna before moving to the rest of the city.
    — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
  • His sister, Nancy, set off to see what had happened at the blighted house on the outskirts of Montgomery, Alabama.
    — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The property also sits in a blighted area of downtown needing revitalization.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • On the other hand, in such a blighted landscape, AI could, perhaps, come not as a vulture to pick over the remains but a new life force to resuscitate them.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Kansas City could soon move to get a blighted downtown building into the hands of someone else who could pursue rehabilitation.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
  • The city razed a number of blighted buildings in the neighborhood in the 1990s in an effort to revitalize the region.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2024
  • That will let the health department hire contractors to solve public health problems on blighted properties, like garbage piles and rodent infestations.
    — Tory Wegerski, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'blighted.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: