Something causing misery or death.
1 The nineteenth century brought us the boon and the bane of industrialism.
2 Now their unsold homes are the bane of a sickly housing market.
3 It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
4 LATE payment for goods and services is the bane of business life.
5 The Hall door had been shut against the bane of the night-air.
6 The bane of traveling drunks all across this great country of ours.
7 Beware of eloquence: it is the bane of popular speakers like you.
8 Red Jacket felt that intemperance had been the bane of his life.
9 From the origin of San Francisco the earthquake has been its bane .
10 You said once that your indecision was the bane of your life.
11 And strong winds, the bane of ships, are born of the night.
12 You know little Asian said it would bring bane to the bearer.
13 Every general knows that the 'camp-followers' are the bane of an army.
14 My naturally curly locks have always been the bane of my existence.
15 This vice, the bane of my new period of life, was vanity.
16 Wifi is both a great enabler and the bane of our lives.
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