Example Sentences

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One said McClain had cursed at her for getting water during practice because the coach often prevented them from taking water breaks.

From New York Times • May 29, 2020

If the teen idols of the nineties or two-thousands had cursed during a performance, they would have been excommunicated by the pop powers that be.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 26, 2019

Though they had cursed inflation to a man, U.S. citizens had grown so used to the howl of high-speed gears that any change in pitch sounded ominously like warnings of a slowdown.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Panamanians who had cursed Duran in 1980 were waving small flags and cheering, not in one voice but in pockets of song scattered about the 15,200-seat stadium outside Caesars Palace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vervain in his time had encountered any number of prisoners who, before they died, had cursed or threatened him, not uncommonly with supernatural vengeance, much as Bigwig had cursed Woundwort in the storm.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams