Sentence examples for a wretched one from inspiring English sources

This was as comfortable a match for Southampton as it was a wretched one for Manchester City, depleted and disconnected while Sadio Mané tore them to shreds.

Wood took a few minutes to recover and was still wondering where he was when he dropped a pass, albeit a wretched one from the hapless Ryan Lamb.

Lampard's goal was a wretched one for Ireland to concede and, in particular, Sean St Ledger in the centre of their defence.

New York had been confident enough in their approach play in the second half to just about merit the goal and the lead, but in truth both these sides have been mediocre in league play this year and Wright-Phillips' league-leading 14 goals have been vital in stopping a disappointing post-Supporters Shield season turning into a wretched one.

The decision as to when to call time on a band must be a truly wretched one.

A classic recent example – and a particularly wretched one, at least according to Steven Poole, who reviewed it in the Spectator and Bryan Appleyard, who reviewed it in the Sunday Times – is Clotaire Rapaille and Andres Roemer's Move Up: Why Some Cultures Advance While Others Don't, in Poole's words a rambling pseudoscientific argument" based on crudely archetypal "national characteristics".

Every team exudes confidence on the eve of a new season following an extremely wretched one.

The Legacy is set in and around the country mansion of the an artist, Veronika Grønnegaard, who in the drama's first episode emerges from a hospital's oncology department grimly lighting up a cigarette and sporting a wretched look – one that surely betokens she has just received her death sentence from cancer.

The distribution of children around the family was, until recently, an unremarkable event, and Charlie clearly provided a far happier home for John than the wretched one he had left behind.

My first summer in New York was the legendarily wretched one of 1993, when the temperature reached at least ninety degrees thirty-nine times and the Dinkins administration kept a light grip on civic order.

For the better part of six months, the Los Angeles Lakers belittled the 82-game regular season, treating it like a pregame warm-up, where missed layups and botched passes are irrelevant, where how splendid or how wretched one looks means nothing.