Example sentences for: cursed

How can you use “cursed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • description of "the Stalinist aesthetics of the Weekly Standard ." How often have I, the author of nearly 20 literary reviews for the Standard , cursed as the jackbooted minions of editors Kristol, Podhoretz, and Barnes pounded on my door in the dead of night, delivering the latest Politburo ukase on the proper interpretation of 20 th -century literature.

  • In it he is Cassandra, cursed to have his prophecies disbelieved: "When Ickes first tried to tell Clinton that Monica was spreading stories that could be harmful to him, he refused to listen."

  • He said the world's media now regard that stretch of sky and sea as "cursed"--"another Bermuda Triangle ready for the new millennium"--but he went on to explain prosaically that the flight paths up the East Coast of the United States are in fact neither "bewitched nor cursed, but simply the busiest in the world."

  • Cursed by long lead times, the tabloids missed the first turn in the sex-scandal news cycle.

  • But most of us do not feel at all cursed.


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