Sample Sentences forwretched (editor-reviewed)
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The children were taken into protective custody due to their wretched living conditions.wretched = miserable
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She wrote a book about the wretched excess on Wall Street.wretched = very bad
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The photograph showed poor people in a wretched village in East Africa.wretched = in terrible condition
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But there was no way he'd go back to that wretched orphanage. (source)wretched = miserable (very bad)
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I sat there numb with horror. Wretched with helplessness. And I listened as Rosemary told them she would prefer to inject herself. Then she did so. I didn't watch. I looked away. (source)Wretched = miserable
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She did not mean to hide in the wardrobe, because she knew that would only set the others talking again about the whole wretched business. (source)wretched = unfortunate or miserable
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...the wretched boy was being sucked closer and closer towards the mouth of one of the great pipes that was dangling down into the river. (source)wretched = unfortunate
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Aurelius, which yet despaired is Whe'er* he shall have his love, or fare amiss, *whether Awaited night and day on this miracle: And when he knew that there was none obstacle, That voided* were these rockes every one, *removed Down at his master's feet he fell anon, And said; "I, woeful wretch'd Aurelius, Thank you, my Lord, and lady mine Venus, That me have holpen from my cares cold."† (source)
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Why, O why did I ever bring a wretched little hobbit on a treasure hunt! (source)wretched = miserable
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And with that word he turned him anon. Then came her other friends many a one, And in the alleys roamed up and down, And nothing wist of this conclusion, But suddenly began to revel new, Till that the brighte sun had lost his hue, For th' horizon had reft the sun his light (This is as much to say as it was night); And home they go in mirth and in solace; Save only wretch'd Aurelius, alas He to his house is gone with sorrowful heart.† (source)
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I never saw a man in so wretched a condition. (source)
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And thus in joy and bliss I let them dwell, And of the sick Aurelius will I tell In languor and in torment furious Two year and more lay wretch'd Aurelius, Ere any foot on earth he mighte gon; Nor comfort in this time had he none, Save of his brother, which that was a clerk.† (source)
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Here, then; the wretched man whose name he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground. (source)wretched = unfortunate
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It made him remember things, and he became so wretched that he was ill. (source)wretched = miserable
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Does this mean we have to go the whole wretched way on foot again? (source)
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At this result Mr. Covey seemed to be highly pleased, both with the man and the wretched woman. (source)wretched = person of bad character
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