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How to use the word cursed in a Sentence?

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She cursed me, telling me ‘You should have stayed in North Korea. Why did you come here and bump into me?‘ it deeply hurt me. I couldn’t show my temper because I was hurt too much ... I just stood helplessly and I didn’t go to school for a week.

Choi Yeong-chun

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And he [Mathews] not only used one of the most demeaning terms you can give to a black person, he said it with no hesitation, but he also said it once the police officer came and cursed at the police officer.

The Mount Laurel Police Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's a problem that's happened every 40 years, it's the cursed Olympics - and that's a fact.

Finance Minister Taro Aso

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The individual refused to provide identification, cursed at and made homophobic slurs at the officer who remained calm throughout the entire engagement.

Bob Powers

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

In our African culture there are taboos ... we say 'this child is cursed', we will say there is witchcraft, that this child is irrecoverable, when you live ... without knowing if you are he or she, when you have to constantly justify who you are, its not easy.

Gabonese Dorothee Adjakidjie

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He said, ‘They’re chasing me, they’re chasing me. Please let me have your bike,’ i could hear him screaming that over my headphones. I told him no, and I cursed at him a few times. I told him to get the hell off my bike.

Brandon Jenkins

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I’ve been so blessed to work with some great filmmakers, that I’m probably cursed to probably ever work as a director myself, i don’t think I would be able to compare to what I’ve seen. There are so many things that come into play when you make a movie. I really don’t know how they do it. The truth is, the one thing I regret, if anything, in my long career having worked with the likes of Alejandro [G. Inarritu] and Marty [Scorsese] is not be able to be a voyeur and stand aside and watch what they do, because I’m only concerned about what the hell I’m doing every single day.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When a child is born, kava is presented and for a lot of Pacifica people, they believe that if you fail to do that, the child's life is cursed.

Apo Aporosa

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Arthur Koestler

added by anonymous
9 years ago

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

Edith Wharton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

May Sarton

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Blaise Pascal

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

Rosanne Barr

added by anonymous
13 years ago

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Cursed be he that moves my bones.

William Shakespeare, Epitaph on his gravestone

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness.

Susan Sarandon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you.

Euripides

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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