Sentence examples for a wretched place from inspiring English sources

It used to be a wretched place, submerged by undergrowth and with a looted, derelict museum.

Neither, in Mr Miliband's view, does Britain.It is a wretched place, explained the Labour leader.

By the 1890s, most writers saw Depau Row as a wretched place.

It was, they said, a wretched place, peopled with girl who wear glasses and never get any husbands.

Chumphon may be picturesque, but Jimm sees it as a wretched place where grass chewing qualifies as an activity and a latter-day Lewis Carroll atmosphere prevails.

Pakistan then sent another signal, collecting the newcomers in Jalozai, a wretched place where 80,000 people lived on the barren soil of a dried-up riverbed.

It would be hard to find a more wretched place to go to work on that goal than at the National Directorate of Orphanages in Afghanistan's Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and the Disabled, where Mr. Hashemi became the director seven months ago.

Cerro de Pasco has also always been an utterly wretched place to call home.

That leaves him in a wretched position.

If there be not, we are in a wretched situation.

"We see him fighting to maintain a toehold in this wretched place," Mr. Stewart said in an interview.