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How to use the word loathe in a Sentence?

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Companies have been hanging onto people and are loathe to let them go in this environment.

Andrew Challenger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I loathe Michaeil Ward and his very existence because every breath Michaeil Ward gets to take is one breath more than my 15-year-old daughter was allowed to breathe, hadiya Pendleton is serving a death sentence handed down by Michaeil Ward and the family is doing life as a result of her death.

Cleopatra Cowley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The only way to really improve it…is to have competition, the only other thing that works, I’m loathe to say, is for the regulatory environment to tighten up the service regulations that apply to the airlines.

Arthur Alan Wolk

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I'd actually used the word I was trying to obscure. I was mortified by this, horrified. It is a word I loathe.

Jeremy Clarkson

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Try to dwell on the people you’d like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

Perry Brass

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurber

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....

Longfellow

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

Franoise Mallet-Joris

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

August Strindberg

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

James Thurber

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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