Example sentences for: wretch

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

  • Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.

  • There's something perversely reassuring about a great beauty who had it all--and still ended up a drug-addled wretch manipulated by a Machiavellian butler (Richard Chamberlain).

  • , free parking, porters to carry one's luggage, B-girls, hookers, house detectives) and on further restrictions (there are few hotels in large cities that make “washrooms freely available” even to hotel guests outside their rooms, lest some wretch needing to use the facility wander in off the street); but would anyone insist that the presence of shops be restrictively incorporated in the definition of hotel ?; would a native speaker of English refer to restaurants and other public rooms as “compartments for eating, drinking, dancing,” etc.?

  • He understands that I may feel like a genius in May and a wretch by July.

  • The cover story, titled "The Gospel According to George W. Bush," narrates his transformation from sinful wretch to fervent believer and his carefully phrased supplications to the Christian right.


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