cursing
- present participle of curse.
Example Sentences
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"It's like you're clinging on, for dear life, onto the ball that is continuing to roll, and sort of cursing yourself and the world the entire time."
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Why can baseball and basketball players do their jobs with 60,000 hostile fans cursing at full volume but golfers and tennis players need complete silence to do theirs?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025
And yet for all the cursing and swagger and bluster, there was an unmistakable air of anxiety pervading the glassy convention center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
Rodrigo Duterte, who would assume the presidency the year after the papal visit, would make headlines after cursing the Pope for the traffic chaos he caused.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
And clinging desperately to the end of the string, shouting and cursing with fury, was the huge hairy Cloud-Man.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
