imprecation

Example Sentences

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Without waiting to catch breath after his heroic skirmish, he began uttering, over these detested feathers, the most horrible imprecations imaginable.

From Literature

Her singing encompassed cathartic extremes: lullabies and imprecations, sighs and howls.

From New York Times

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

In the history of American presidential debates, there never has been a spectacle of imprecations and interruptions like Tuesday night’s prize fight.

From Los Angeles Times

That at times gives them the distasteful task of wrestling with demonstrators clad in prayer shawls, or facing down children who shout imprecations at them.

From Los Angeles Times