IMPRECATION in a Sentence

Learn IMPRECATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

15 example sentences for IMPRECATION, such as:

1. Every blow was accompanied with terrible imprecations.
2. There exist no imprecations she did not pour out against you.
3. His body vibrated from the weight and force of his imprecations.
4. From the heaving tangle issued exhortations, commands, imprecations.
5. 'As weak as water,' replied Mr. Sikes, with an imprecation on his eyes and limbs.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPRECATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
imprecation
 n.  curse; act of calling down a curse that invokes evil
Classic Sentence:
1  'As weak as water,' replied Mr. Sikes, with an imprecation on his eyes and limbs.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
2  The man got no further, for Sikes with a hideous imprecation overthrew the table, and tearing the hat from him, burst out of the house.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
3  While the reddleman was grasping the stakes Wildeve seized the dice and hurled them, box and all, into the darkness, uttering a fearful imprecation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
4  He was happy to combine in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia and England.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
5  The artifice was answered by a hundred voices raised in imprecations; and the whole of the excited multitude broke from their order, and spread themselves about the place in wild confusion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
6  From the heaving tangle issued exhortations, commands, imprecations.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  His body vibrated from the weight and force of his imprecations.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  Sikes, invoking terrific imprecations upon Fagin's head for sending Oliver on such an errand, plied the crowbar vigorously, but with little noise.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  Hour after hour he considered her wants; he thought of her presence there with a sort of gratitude, and, while uttering imprecations on the cause of her unhappiness, in some measure blessed the result.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
10  Every blow was accompanied with terrible imprecations.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 37 MILADY'S SECRET
11  There exist no imprecations she did not pour out against you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT
12  As to his voice, prayers, sobs, and imprecations had changed it so that at times it was of a singularly penetrating sweetness, and at others rough and almost hoarse.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
13  He drank the spirits and impatiently bade us go; terminating his command with a sequel of horrid imprecations too bad to repeat or remember.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at it and at his leg.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
Example Sentence:
1  Spouting violent imprecation, Hank searched for the person who had vandalized his truck.