Sentence examples for a wretched night from inspiring English sources
Manuel Pellegrini's misfiring Manchester City require a minor miracle to qualify for the knockout stage after a wretched night for the Premier League champions.
Labour came a clear third, on 17.7%, and the Liberal Democrats had a wretched night – beaten into sixth place by the Greens and an independent hospital campaigner, getting 2.6% of the vote, and losing their deposit for the ninth time in a byelection since 2010.
That made it a wretched night of humiliation for City and Pep Guardiola, one imagines, will not take any consolation from the fact he had repeatedly warned everyone he did not think it possible to win four trophies in one season.
Their problems were epitomised by the full-back Scott Grix, such a key figure in last season's success who had a wretched night, while Danny Brough, the half-back heartbeat who was the 2013 Man of Steel, spent 10 minutes in the sin-bin after another frustrating night against his former club.
Thomas Muller scored Bayern's second in between Hart's errors and a fine late strike from City substitute Alvaro Negredo could not put any gloss on a wretched night for Manuel Pellegrini and his team.
A New Zealand man spent a "wretched" night in a Fiji prison cell after frightened residents and police raided his Freemasons meeting, suspecting witchcraft and sorcery.
It was a rough element of injustice on a wretched European night.
And the terrible questions: "Was he already getting close to his devastating dotage, when he would become increasingly helpless?" On one typically wretched night he talks to himself aloud, saying, "Kurt Wallander is lying in his bed, thinking of death".
Hundreds of readers shared their stories of wretched nights awake and a medical community that offered no real answers.
Unfortunately, you can manage a wretched rendition of Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" -- and still be So Ten Minutes Ago.
