Example Sentences

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Some players are thriving on the livelier surfaces - but others are cursing them.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Schumer said it doesn’t bother him that Rubio, who has now distanced himself from that bill, is not touting their work together and that other candidates are cursing his name.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2016

But there’s a reason for their potty-mouthed exclamations — these young girls, dressed up in princess costumes, are cursing to protest inequalities that are even more shocking than curse words.

From Time • Oct. 22, 2014

Even if kids are cursing at a younger age, foul language accounts for only 0.3 to 0.7 percent of our daily speech.

From Scientific American • May 30, 2011

Go on repeating your platitudes, and by the time you find you are cursing your own stupid persistence, you may swear you have made a convert to your opinions.

From Lord Kilgobbin by Lever, Charles James