imprecation
Example Sentences
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She hurled raspy imprecations in “Hurt Yourself” and let her voice break with tearful desperation and then find its own resolve in the hymnlike “Sandcastles.”
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2022
We’ve got four hours – drop me a line with your forecasts, imprecations, witticisms and laments.
From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2018
Hence his derision, the sputtered imprecations: “He’s no hero!”
From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017
He would deserve history's greater imprecations had he done less.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2015
Lana started to make sounds, like the imprecations of a priestess, over the bills that the boy had given her.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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