Example sentences for: cursing

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

  • Not only is it full of cursing, ethnic jokes, prostitution, and the like, but it dares to have no laugh track and a bastard as the protagonist: "the show is truly subversive and daring in its scabrous attitude" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). A few minor complaints: 1) The show is "a little in love with its own transgressiveness" (James Poniewozik, Time ). 2) The show relies on "humiliation humor" and Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker predicts that the unlikability of star Jay Mohr will sink the show.

  • (The Witch cursing Dorothy after Toto got away.

  • In this comprehensive study, Timothy Jay, who teachers at North Adams State College, in Massachusetts, divides his subject into several subcategories: Cursing, Profanity, Blasphemy, Taboo, Obscenity, Vulgarity, Slang, Epithets, and Scatology.

  • And insofar as much of our everyday lives depends on knowing that certain rules count and others don't--like laws banning cursing out loud, or spitting in public, or oral sex--Rudy Giuliani is making everyone feel very unsettled.

  • Spanish cursing and swearing is inventive-- echar sapos y culebras literally, means `to throw out frogs and snakes.


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