Sentence examples for a wretched time from inspiring English sources

IN MOST democracies, politicians have a wretched time in opposition.

Barba is now a Bronco though and he is having a wretched time of it.

I was quite happy to do it, but it was a wretched time.

Berners, like his partner, struggled to please his cool and thoughtless parents; he also had a wretched time at school.

"The fact is," Simpson says now, "that some people do have a wretched time, but a lot are fine.

By Jonathan Randal.,FarrarStraus & Giroux; 349 pages; $25AT BEST unloved, at worst tortured and killed by their unappreciative hosts, most Kurds have a wretched time.

Nobody on either side had a more wretched time with the ball than Johnson.

If he were to wake up and discover that someone had run away with his wife and stolen his car it would be no more than of a piece with the wretched time he has had striving for recognition over seven years and 21 fights.

Now deputy commander at Nato, Britain's General Rupert Smith still has the word "Srebrenica" carved on his soul from his wretched time with the UN-commanded force in Bosnia.

A candidate for President who is the announced enemy of the openness that America has traditionally stood for and that drew persecuted émigrés like Moholy-Nagy to America as to a golden land, a candidate who embraces the mottos and rhetoric of the pro-fascist groups of that same wretched time, has taken over one of our most venerable political parties, and he seems still in the ascendancy.

Given the wretched time he has had with injury over the past few years, this is a feel-good story to rival anything we've seen for quite some time.