English example sentences with "wretched"

The family lived a wretched life during the war.
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He lived a wretched life when young.
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They live in a wretched little house.
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New lovers are wretched company.
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Because thou sayest — I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
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You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
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Late in the autumn, when the weather was rough, windy, and wet, and the cold penetrated through the thickest clothing, especially at sea, a wretched boat went out to sea with only two men on board.
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Begone, wretched spawn of Hell's unholy bowels!
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Nothing is more wretched than a man who traverses everything in a round, and pries into the things beneath the earth, as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbours, without perceiving that it is sufficient to attend to the demon within him, and to reverence it sincerely.
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I like to help the most wretched people.
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Unless a beautiful woman is an angel, her husband is the most wretched of men.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.
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I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.
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Cinderella slept in a sorry garret, on a wretched straw bed, while her sisters slept in fine rooms, with floors all inlaid, on beds of the very newest fashion, and where they had looking glasses so large that they could see themselves at their full length from head to foot.
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The poor girl had to sleep in the garret, upon a wretched straw bed, while her sisters lay in fine rooms with inlaid floors, upon beds of the very newest fashion, and where they had looking-glasses so large that they might see themselves at their full length.
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On these grounds, alone, I think I may claim a preference to other suitors, and none of their gifts shall exceed mine. They may offer goats and sheep, or a yoke of wretched oxen, or corn that is even not fit food for fowls; but I will give you three thousand drachmas — only let no one know what I have offered — not even Lamon my father!
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"Thus while they waver and, perplex with doubt, / urge diverse counsels, and in parts divide, / lo, from the citadel, foremost of a rout, / breathless Laocoon runs, and from afar cries out: / 'Ah! wretched townsmen! do ye think the foe / gone, or that guileless are their gifts? O blind / with madness! Thus Ulysses do ye know?'"
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"Then he, at length his show of fear laid by, / 'Great King, all truly will I own, whate'er / the issue, nor my Argive race deny. / This first; if fortune, spiteful and unfair, / hath made poor Sinon wretched, fortune ne'er / shall make me false or faithless.'"

"You liar!" she spurted out. "You wretched liar!"

Human beings—human children especially—seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a power which they are conscious of possessing, even though that power consist only in a capacity to make others wretched.

Grit your teeth and keep working on the wretched painting.

He's in a wretched condition.

When it's warm the sickness saps my energy, and it's no better in this wretched cold either.

You look wretched!

And in his wretched old age’s disdain, he thinks how little he enjoyed the years that he had strength, and eloquence, and beauty.

Now the ships were usually beached on the dry sand: / the young men were busy with weddings and their fresh fields: / I was deciding on laws and homesteads: suddenly, / from some infected region of the sky, came a wretched plague, / corrupting bodies, trees, and crops, and a season of death. / They relinquished sweet life, or dragged their sick limbs / around: then Sirius blazed over barren fields: / the grass withered, and the sickly harvest denied its fruits.

The United Nations calls 2007 a wretched year for millions of disaster victims.

"Tell me what you think of my abstract art, and please don't pull any punches." "It's absolutely wretched. A five-year old could paint a better picture wearing a blindfold." "Hey!" "Well you're the one who wanted total honesty. . ."

Idleness, vice, and intemperance had done their miserable work, and the dead mother lay cold and still amid her wretched children.

You're about to experience a level of pain that will haunt your nightmares for the rest of your wretched life.

The unjust are wretched.

I am so gauche with these wretched baubles.

It was there that this wretched son was born.

'Twas there that this wretched boy was born.

Little help is worth much for the wretched.