Example sentences for: curses

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

  • These are blessings and curses he wrote on charred or otherwise manipulated bits of paper and sent to friends, enemies, and a few public figures (Hitler, for one) in the late 1930s, in the wake of a disastrous trip he took to Ireland, wielding a cane that he believed was the staff of Saint Patrick, from which he returned in a straitjacket.

  • The limitations of languages are again brought home in A thousand curses do not tear a tobe [a shapeless, shirtlike garment]; or, most majestically of all, in The dogs bark, the caravan passes.

  • ' For most Americans, unmentionables probably does not cover (pun intended) the body parts beneath those undergarments and certainly does not include “curses and biological functions.”

  • 8. New Sesame Street character, Zorba the Geek, wears unstylish clothing, seldom bathes, curses a blue streak

  • Archaeologists have braved curses and biohazards to retrieve mummies from pyramids.


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