ACCURSED in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for ACCURSED, such as:

1. I have been ruined by an accursed woman.
2. It's a fair wind that's only fair for that accursed fish.
3. Then I bid my comrades take up arms, and proclaim war on the accursed race.
4. What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.
5. The knaves haven't yet got their eyes out of the mist, or we should hear the accursed whoop.

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accursed
 a.  under a curse
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  He had gone up there and established a plantation; but, now the house had burned down, he was tired of the "accursed place" and would be most happy to get it off his hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia's Dismal Swamp, nor Rome's accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
3  What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
4  It's a fair wind that's only fair for that accursed fish.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
5  It was the life she had to live, the accursed work she had to do, that was killing her by inches.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
6  The knaves haven't yet got their eyes out of the mist, or we should hear the accursed whoop.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
7  There are those living who know the mothers whom this accursed traffic has driven to the murder of their children; and themselves seeking in death a shelter from woes more dreaded than death.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  I have been ruined by an accursed woman.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
9  In consequence again of those accursed laws of consciousness, anger in me is subject to chemical disintegration.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
10  Such a thing, Liza, happens in those accursed families in which there is neither love nor God," I retorted warmly, "and where there is no love, there is no sense either.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
11  Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each suffering has dropped its stone there, each heart has contributed its pebble.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
12  Study and investigation of this strange idiom lead to the mysterious point of intersection of regular society with society which is accursed.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
13  Between the forest and this accursed spot, a little behind the trampled ground, was the same track of small feet as in the garden; the carriage had stopped here.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
14  I move on, and revisit the citadel and Priam's dwelling; where now in the spacious porticoes of Juno's sanctuary, Phoenix and accursed Ulysses, chosen sentries, were guarding the spoil.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
15  Then I bid my comrades take up arms, and proclaim war on the accursed race.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
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