Example Sentences

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And jobless Californians, struggling to access unemployment benefits, have cursed the administration’s bureaucratic inertia.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2021

Pandemics have cursed the presidencies of both Trump and Woodrow Wilson.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2020

He repeatedly apologized, saying that he shouldn’t have cursed and insulted me, and that he had failed.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2018

"Many are the ministers who have cursed the contents of that wretched blue handbag," former Education Secretary Kenneth Baker recalled in an article published after Margaret Thatcher's death in 2013.

From BBC • May 3, 2015

She would have cursed her weakness, had she the strength.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson