How To Use Curse In A Sentence

I. iii.21 (405,9) He shall live a man forbid] Mr. Theobald has very justly explained _forbid_ by _accursed_, but without giving any reason of his interpretation. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
At least Steven Pinker can tell us why we curse and why cursing is so goddamn hard to give up: All Be Galdangit
I'm not saying I believe in curses, but I wouldn't want my mission to be the one they choose to piggyback Lightsail-1 on. Solar sails to take flight - Boing Boing
DIDIER GONDOLA, AUTHOR, "HISTORY OF CONGO": The short answer would be that Congo has been cursed by its natural resources. CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2006
Why do you have to go to law school and live with your girlfriend and leave me behind to languish and molder in this cursed workplace?

The curse has come upon us. Times, Sunday Times
It is a popular belief that the worst horrors befall whoever invites the curse of a hijra.
She heard him curse softly and then he shifted his wait, effectively blocking her attempt at freedom.
Their cursed digital cameras flared out those blinding blue and green lights throughout the concert.
Here is my compile command "cc - Wall - lncurses - o twinkle twinkle. c" I am using fedora 12. 'env' shows that TERM = linux. LinuxQuestions.org
And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the time of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accurse me of theft. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
Would a story in which the MC is dealing with the effects of a wizards curse be fitting? John Joseph Adams » Guidelines: The Way of the Wizard
At first she had imprecated curses on her brothers, and cried, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867
[1046] Metellus proper cantos senatorial ordinis ex Hibernia accurse jubet; eorum et variorum, quos ironers defeat, console habet A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
Because no one keeps the whole Law, everyone who lives by the Law must be under a curse.
He raved, he cursed, he shook his fists in my face, and then suddenly a horrible spasm passed over his features, he clapped his hand to his side, and with a loud cry he fell in a heap at my feet.
He does credit himself with a good sniffer though and claims that his thick moustache is both a blessing – pleasant smells linger longer – and a curse – the bad ones do too. Something Stinks « So Many Books
I learned he had the same goofy sense of humor I was cursed with.
Netto's mother, the Duchess Atalanta, was screaming curses at her beloved son. THE FAMILY
Indeed, as a rule, the blessing of the impious is a curse, wherefore Rebekah remained barren for years. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
You display great attention to detail which can be considered good fortune or a curse when it comes to relationships.
This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.
She is embarrassed by everything and accordingly cursed in her ownership of Theo, a tricky little shih-tzu.
It is the currency that bought infrastructural investment and a high standard of living, and the curse that attracted the gluttonous attention of the most powerful countries in the world.
I think its sad that the whole thing could have been a great opportunity to take the model of second life, and put a knife into the vampire capitalism that curses second-life, demonetize and thus democratize the platform. Well That Was Quick
So he drave out to Miriam, who ran at him with the best of her skill and charged him with the goodliness of her cleverness and her courage and her cunning in fence and cavalarice, crying to him, “O accursed, O enemy of Allah and the Moslems, I will assuredly send thee after thy brothers and woeful is the abiding-place of the Miscreants!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.
To the amusement of the class, we grunted and cursed each other out of the sides of our mouths as we both tried to get through the door.
And then it goes one step further: 99% of the curse words and sexual references are removed in odd, disorienting edits.
When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly.
Tromp would maunder over and over of how Johannes Maartens and the cunies robbed the kings on Tabong Mountain, each embalmed in his golden coffin with an embalmed maid on either side; and of how these ancient proud ones crumbled to dust within the hour while the cunies cursed and sweated at junking the coffins. Chapter 15
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As soon as anyone watches a cursed videotape, the phone rings and the viewer has exactly a week to live. Times, Sunday Times
A Gentleman refers to Cordelia in eremite terms: she "redeems inlet from a ubiquitous curse" of sinfulness so dramatically demonstrated in Lear's elder daughters. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
They would curse and swear. Times, Sunday Times
But terrible, truly terrible and heart searching for the wrongdoer is the message -- God does not curse thee: thou hast cursed thyself. Town and Country Sermons
He felt the pain in the shoulder, where the arrow had hit him, and he damned his ship, his fate, the entire curse of his life.
I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, I will curse.
Whisky -- abhorrer of nature, the curse of the human species! Fifteen Years in Hell
With a curse, Adrina kicked her mount forward and leaned down to reach for the reins of the nearest beast. TREASON KEEP
not a cursed drop
So for example, where we found the buried hulk of the Gold Rush storeship General Harrison, or when we encounter a prehistoric site with human burials, like CA-SFR-114, there's no doubt that the client is going to curse the day he ever met me. Digging San Francisco
As if life isn't enough of a curse, I was afflicted with Tourette Syndrome.
I've always been interested in curses, hexes, and the like, and would be excited to discover that I have this capability, though of course it would also amount to a considerable responsibility.
The instant their prince drew the cursed blade, its power reached out to them.
He cursed it because he was thought dead by his family and could never go back.
It was only this cursed undivorced condition of his, and — and the question whether Annette would take him, which he dared not put to the touch until he had a clear and even dazzling future to offer her. In Chancery
My father, in the first agitations of his mind, on discovering your wicked, your shameful elopement, imprecated on his knees a fearful curse upon you. Clarissa Harlowe
This was followed by a string of curse words that the censors wisely bleeped out.
The man pounced at Kora, the attacker continuing to growl angry curses and words too low for anyone to hear.
Under his breath the man quietly cursed the interfering clerk who could bring his master's grand design to nothing.
The Royal Society was the sponsor of the Discovery expedition, and these mountains were cursed with its name. Terra Incognita
But I was foolish then, spirited and wilful, and so cursedly nearsighted.
The pace picks up as the crew from the cursed ship starts an eerie song and the celebrating sailors try to counter with a merry drinking song of their own.
Mr. Bowis Does my hon. Friend agree that a curse of modern urban living is musical mega-decibels in the night?
He held his hand in the air, muttering Swahili curses as I wound the fabric round.
I don't know if it works, or whether it is in an appropriate RSS version, but it was free, and didn't require me to do any work other than find my accursed BlogStreet password.
He cursed his luck and shut his eyes tight, trying to remain motionless.
Looking down at his shoe so enraged the man that he began to curse the Romans for their slovenly public habits. 52449_CLARA
Anthony, whose job it was to act as a buffer between editorial staff and management and who always looked as though he was on the verge of a heart attack, slammed the phone down, cursed and reached for a cigarette.
A shy New York artist fears she may have descended from a family of cursed women who turn into panthers when turned on.
Wrapping her arms about her, Jenni cursed her choice of a skirt and short sleeves.
They're on a great overtime rate, they're being put up in decent hotels and have got a week away from the accursed paperwork.
The fig tree you cursed has withered! Christianity Today
I cursed her as I searched through the kitchen cupboards for something to eat.
He was listed as an example of theological anti-Semitism by the Anti-Defamation League, when he called curses down upon Jews and labeled them the "scum of the earth" in his sermons. JPost.com - Front Page
Daily he was spit upon, cursed, stoned in the street.
This pioneering plea for religious freedom called diversity not a curse but a glory.
Suddenly I fear becoming even casually acquainted with a new title lest I somehow curse it to dismal failure. Atomic
Looking down at his shoe so enraged the man that he began to curse the Romans for their slovenly public habits. 52449_CLARA
But I had forgotten those accursed books of poetry.
And they bear but one shield and one spear, without other arms; and they wrap their heads and their necks with a great quantity of white linen cloth; and they be right felonous and foul, and of cursed kind. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
My first instinct, of course, was to write a function that would recurse over the tree structure that's used to store a key stream within the archive because if a key stream is too large to fit in a block, it needs to be split into blocks, and then another higher-level smaller key stream used to collect that list of blocks..., building up a list in memory which it would return. Snell-Pym » fold>cons
He that had been accustomed to curse and swear for many years, now swore no more. Christianity Today
THE CURSE OF MEDUSA by J Lee and Tom Welch – A story that looks at the origin of Medusa the Gorgon. Filmstalker: The Black List 2009
Some are unable to string together words in a coherent fashion, others curse the never-ending punishment.
No song lasted more than three minutes, and after each the carrot-haired kid cursed us to death.
These days the Boy is using "introvert" like a curse, he's looking for a companion to bounce with and after three weeks of camp Crash needs a bit of down time. INTJ - really
That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound. Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman'
If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
The citadel is under the command of the baron of Auchinleck; he, with his brave followers, being the first to hail the burning of the accursed Barns of Ayr. The Scottish Chiefs
The bad news is that we will now have to endure more drivel about ‘curses.’
You have not been long enough in India to case-harden into the cursed egotism of this hard-hearted land, and remember, age, crawling on, has indurated old A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story
Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.
She just wanted to be released from this horrible life she had been cursed with.
He provided a video cassette to the court and insisted that it recorded the parrot's curse.
India Bridge is a decent woman, hopefully naïve, willfully unliberated, cursed with a brain she is afraid to use and time that she cannot manage to fill.
NEW YORK mdash; The renegade flight attendant who cursed out a passenger and emergency-chuted to folk-hero status thanked the world for its support and said ... Steven Slater, Jet Blue Flight Attendant, Wants To Return To Air
Unpadded, the butt jarred into my shoulder every time I pulled the trigger on the accursed gun, causing no small amount of pain.
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
His grandmother had the same affliction that his mother was cursed with.
And a mark of a good trooper is how many lanuages he can curse in. Preperations being made….
Yet Weil thought so poorly of her achievements she once identified herself with the barren fig tree Jesus cursed because it bore no fruit.
I've been saying for quite a few years now that my family is cursed.
The story goes that around the turn of the century, Tom cursed the fact that every time he drilled for water for his livestock, up came oil, too.
Plus it's been cursed with the continuous reference to a movie that did it a terrible disservice. Times, Sunday Times
You are to be morecursed than any other thing on earth and you will have to crawl on your bellyand eat dust the rest of your life.
Within the week I had repented of what I termed my idiotic quixotism, and for precisely nine days after that I cursed my folly. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking
‘I've been doing a quick inventory of my curses,’ he told me, steepling his fingers.
We bless and we curse effetely all the livelong day, vaguely cognizant of some long lost momentousness, too jejune in our materialism to believe in anything. WORLDMag.com
Sitting down at my desk, I took out my diary and set it out, flipping through the pages and seeing my own flowing cursive, seeing the curses, seeing the dreams, and I could see everything just flowing by like time could be tracked.
He only silently curses the Quartermaster for somehow arranging him to be left with this nagging virago yet again.
In the meantime, the study may just give the rest of us permission to just let go and explode with our favorite curse word when we bump our shins on the coffee table.
To slightly rephrase Hal in his next play, Henry V, ‘And gentlefolk in New York now abed / Shall think themselves accursed they were not here.’
But his sustre fulfilled not his wille: for als sone as he was ded, sche delyvered alle the lordes out of presoun, and lete hem gon, eche lord to his owne; and tolde hem alle the purpos of hire brothers ordynance: and so was this cursed kyng never made sorwe for, as he supposed for to have ben. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Quite honestly, alcohol is a bigger curse than cannabis.
I am accursed, and any who sees my face shares that curse.
The old women called at houses selling lucky charms and muttering curses if they found a door slammed in their faces. LOST SUMMER
But just as it is limited to those who have the God of Shem, that is, who believe, so the curse also is limited to those who abide in the wickedness of Ham. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood
Some cineastes still curse Hoop Dreams for turning film festivals into video festivals.
I silently cursed myself for the quiver in my voice.
He saw, as he supposed, "the Okimow in peril of his life," and acted according to the dictates of his accursedly poor discretion. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
Nothing strikes one as more painful and odious in the ways of that Court and that Parliament than the language of sickening sycophancy which is used by all statesmen alike in public {86} with regard to kings and princes, for whom in private they could find no words of abuse too strong and coarse, no curse too profane. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
That evil is malevolent violence, a curse that is the bane of our human existence.
The show culminated with Rivers swearing at Nielsen unleashing a torrent of Italian curses.
A galleon with its upper decks razed, perhaps, in an effort to make it lighter, and furthermore cursed with an eccentric sailmaker.
From what cursed old antediluvian, who lived before the invention of spinning-jennies, she learned this craft, Heaven only knows; but there she sits, with her work pinned to her knee — not the pretty taper silken fabric, with which Saint Ronan's Well
Whenever I express my penchant for reality television in the circle of snide, knowing, not-as-smart-as-they-think-they-are crosspatches that I'm cursed to call friends, I often do so defensively.
Kayla mentally cursed at her stupidity at wasting such a great opportunity.
His line would be accursed to the last generation.
It's like that fairy tale where vipers and toads jump out of the mouth of the accursed mean little girl when she tries to speak.
Out in the front, the diners enjoy heavenly food; in the back, those dishes are prepared in hell's kitchen - an inferno of flame, smoke, sweated labour and shouted curses.
Literally, according to a new NBER working paper by Robinson and Torvik (ungated version here), entitled "The Real Swing Voter's Curse". Damned Voters!
On the following day of St. John, three more masses were held, to remember his role as the precurser, his role as the baptizer, and the last to honor his sanctity. June festivals at Lake Chapala
Other memorable movie roles included Santa Claus in the 1989 movie "Prancer" and as the gypsy father, Tadzu Lempke, who utters the title curse in the 1996 movie "Stephen King's Thinner. Berks county news
His wealth proved a curse to him.
Similarly, it is easier to introduce a hex, curse, cold, whatever, than it is to heal it, stop it, etc.
I skidded, slipped, cursed, crashed, and generally regressed one full level in ability.
As soon as anyone watches a cursed videotape, the phone rings and the viewer has exactly a week to live. Times, Sunday Times
I could hear near and distant explosions of rifles, shouts and curses of men, women screaming and children bawling. Chapter 13
Every curse, every hateful word, every thought of death, everything was put in that smile.
Meanwhile, everyone she films with her cursed camera meets an untimely doom.
Despite their efforts and curses, the winds and the rogue waves wash them past any seemingly habitable islands.
For there was the defeat of Mons Graupius for the Picts to avenge, and, a generation before that, there was the dying curse of a flamehaired queen called Boudicca … The Two Malcontents
But the attempt was marred by technical difficulties ranging from slow camera updates to not having the cursed thing plugged in.
Many thanks must go then to Thomas Edison for ruining the whole hibernation ideal with his accursed light-bulbs.
By vocalizing your overconfidence, you leave your squad vulnerable to all kinds of bad karma, curses and jinxes.
Now it is not uncommon to hear an adult swear in front of their children in public, and the kids to curse back.
Paz took a quick step away, kicked the baseboard hard, and cursed to himself in Spanish. TROPIC OF NIGHT
It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Cursed with allergies in his first years, Koby often erupted in hives and eczema.
Time to re-roast an old chestnut, a column I wrote several years that has become fresh in my mind due to the successful completion last night of Operation Dress-the-Tree (to be followed in a few weeks, of course, by Operation Curse-the-Tree as the needle-shedding skeleton is hauled out to the alley). O Tannenbaum
Had she but read Euphues, and forgotten that accursed mill and shieling-hill, it is my thought that her converse would be broidered with as many and as choice pearls of compliment, as that of the most rhetorical lady in the court of Feliciana. The Monastery
A passing cart rolled by splattering him with mud and Corbett quietly cursed Burnell for sending him here.
Ha! Cursed 6)paleface, do you dare to enter the camp of Red Chief ?
Backscuttling for the hop off with the odds altogether in favour of his tumbling into the river, Jaun just then I saw to collect from the gentlest weaner among the weiners, (who by this were in half droopleaflong mourning for the passing of the last post) the familiar yellow label into which he let fall a drop, smothered a curse, choked a guffaw, spat expectoratiously and blew his own trumpet. Finnegans Wake
Nowhere is the mention that Senator Levin "cursed" (as the headline said) or did any swearing. Levin swears repeatedly at Goldman hearing
I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, I will curse.
While she was dying of cancer[Sentencedict], his ex-wife's utmost curse was to forbid Erica from ever giving him a coveted pot roast recipe.
In fact, God had often chastised them for their idolatry (see Jud 2: 14); but it is the curse of impiety not to perceive the hand of God in calamities. victuals -- Men cast away the bread of the soul for the bread that perisheth (De 8: 3; Joh 6: 27). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
In this case, cupfuls of frontal lobe, corpus callosum and snowflake-unique collections of synapses that led Miss Mullens to curse out loud with words like “poot” and “jiminy” and yet have internal dialogue like a motherfucking stevedore, as I was to find out to my displeasure when her consciousness exploded into mine as I was lying in the attic, replete, about four hours later. Blood Lite II: Overbite
Oh, by the way, we normally crush the teams that have screamers and cursers for coaches.
I ate an energy-giving meal - bakes beans and jacket potato - a combination the midwife would later curse me for.
Gods of the Junii, with this offering I ask you to summonTyche, Megaera, and Nemesis so that they may witness this curse. More champagne socialist New Labour sleaze: Jacqui Smith Home Sec & expenses fiddler.
I am thinking here of journalists, but more commonly of activists for whom the European or North American identity he or she was born with is a burden if not a curse.
The old fisherman was cursed by his shrewish wife.
For those unfamiliar with the design of the cursed building I inhabit, I live in the (rather shabbily) converted attic.
I cursed some more, managed to staunch the flow, hopped around like a deranged Morris dancer until I could reach a plaster, patched myself up and went back to bed.
A teamster cursed as the Poor Fellows ordered his wagon out of the way.
Not once, since you went to that accursedly out-of-the-way place, has a letter from you found me in the same mood and circumstances to which it was addressed, as being the mood and circumstances in which my own letter had left me, and of course it has been the same with my letters to you. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
What is benison for Chelsea inevitably turns out to be a curse on their peers.
Curses were routinely used as a deterrent against tomb raiders in ancient Egypt, as the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered when excavating Tutankhamun's burial chamber.
Rushwind curses in anger at the tactic employed by his opponent.
A stream of curses and obscenities streamed through my mind, begging to be screamed.
He knew that this stout, handsome, competent woman, who could outcurse a British sergeant of marines, had a good and gentle heart. Ishmael
And we need something a little better than this accursed nonsense about the survival of the fittest. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
She plays Brenda, now a teacher who is stalked by an accursed videotape.
Five centuries ago, my whole family was cursed and turned into werecats.
He always had been a screamer, a facemask grabber, a five-star curser, but in Tennessee he stood back.
Meanwhile, howe'er that turn out, I will be fore'er thankful to thee for curing my curse. Phaze Doubt
Rekha complained like crazy, she gave him hell, she bawled him out and cursed him for a useless lafanga and haramzada and salah and even, in extremis, for being guilty of the impossible feat of fucking the sister he did not have. The Satanic Verses
Whosoever shall willfully blaspheme the holy name of God, by cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, and whosoever shall profanely curse or damn or swear by the name of God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Just before she is taken away, she curses the Baron's family: the firstborn of every generation will die before the father does.
To understand hoodoo curses and cures, she had to undergo harrowing initiation rituals, which she described in ‘Mules and Men’.
And they accurse all those that abstain them to eat flesh the Saturday. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Balaam, the last representative of patriarchism, was required to curse the Jewish Church, just as it afterwards would not succumb to Christianity without a struggle (Nu Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Pak cursed routinely and adjusted the gain of the amplifier.
Plus it's been cursed with the continuous reference to a movie that did it a terrible disservice. Times, Sunday Times
And when I see a whole silent, solemn drawing-room full of idiots sitting with their hands on each other's foreheads "communing," I tug the white hairs from my head and curse till my asthma brings me the blessed relief of suffocation. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875)
I tried to curse the selkie for pushing me into the portal without so much as a by-your-leave, but for some reason my voice wasn't working.
His foot was throbbing madly, but he gave the door another kick, muttering more curses under his breath.
Lynch wrote a notoriously vengeful poem, full of vicious curses, a story he tells against himself in shamefaced penance.
a witch put a curse on his whole family
I had but sat down to a flask of malvoisie and a mortress of brawn, as is my use about this hour, when there comes a cherking, and I find my wine over my legs and the flask in my lap, and then as I stoop to clip it there comes another cursed cherk, and there is a mortress of brawn stuck fast to the nape of my neck. The White Company
Auguste found himself caught up in the general excitement and cursed his heavy waterlogged costume.
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Using the curse of the werewolf as a metaphor for puberty, it's a sharp and, forgive the pun, biting take on adolescence.
As soon as anyone watches a cursed videotape, the phone rings and the viewer has exactly a week to live. Times, Sunday Times
She cursed herself inwardly as the words left her and knew what was about to happen next.
Kael felt his cheeks heat up at the mere hint of the heated promise in Sully's voice, and he cursed the blush, shaking his head and looking away to hide it.
The Old Hell Shaft, the pitman said, with a curse upon it, was worthy of its bad name to the last; for though Stephen could speak now, he believed it would soon be found to have mangled the life out of him. Hard Times
The Tennessean sons of a preacher man swerved past the curse of the ‘difficult’ second album to create an almighty slab of jaded gothic Southern rock.
Born as a result of a curse, she lives an accursed, wasteful, unproductive life of pain and loneliness, and dies in loneliness and in intolerable agony.
It's just so much easier to curse like the proverbial inner city sailor than to speak in a traditionally sophisticated and cultured manner.
Alan took a chip in the neck and it opened up a small cut that nevertheless bled copiously and ruined, * ruined* his favorite T-shirt, with Snoopy sitting atop his doghouse in an aviator's helmet, firing an imaginary machine gun at the cursed Red Baron. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
While many follow the way of the world by loving their friends and hating their enemies, Jesus carves out a new way: "Love your enemies, bless those who curse you" (Matt. 5:44).
The priest who took the ordeal by _corsned_ received a bit of bread or a bit of cheese which was loaded heavily, by way of sauce, with curses upon whomsoever should eat it falsely. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
Deflation, the curse of farmers and wage earners, seemed ready to ease its icy grip.
The only ways to overcome this curse of predestiny are clever writing and serious, believable realism.
It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

How To Use Curse In A Sentence

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