Example Sentences

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“I can’t remember anything like this, at a time when everyone is cursing us,” he said, noting Russia’s isolation on the world stage.

From Washington Times • Aug. 7, 2023

Somewhere in east London, a hipster bakery that sells sourdough starters is cursing him for beating them to that name.

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2020

They land in the nursery, just as their poor mother’s heart is breaking and their father is cursing the infernal racket.

From Time • Dec. 5, 2014

Retorted Nehru: "He is cursing for the sake of cursing."

From Time Magazine Archive

He gave the twisted, difficult, rather foolish smile of one who is cursing the mortification of a predicament into which he has been cast through no fault of his own.

From Hilda Lessways by Bennett, Arnold