Example sentences for: curses

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

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

  • A coach curses an administrator.

  • 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.

  • The German word for gremlin is Kobold , an underground sprite believed to put curses on ore.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast