| A man covered with suppurating sores, emaciated and disease-ridden, was groaning as he picked yellow scabs from his body. |
| Light was blocked out, rubbish and pollution accumulated and the scheme soon descended into a foetid, disease-ridden mass of squalor and degradation. |
| Foer became politicised, he tells us, by a visit to an industrialised turkey farm, crowded, filthy, disease-ridden. |
| Venice, which begins as a sensory paradise and ends as a disease-ridden abyss. |
| During the summer, the wives and children of politicians often avoided Washington, which had been built atop a disease-ridden swamp. |
| He considered himself fortunate that he had not been included in the earlier work parties that were sent up to cut the traces through the disease-ridden jungle. |
