Sentence examples for an imprecation. from inspiring English sources

The name was an imprecation aimed at folk music snobs.

These days, "fuzzy animal costume" is something of an imprecation in children's theater circles.

A jeremiad, a philippic, an imprecation against library professionals and all their friends who are bent on discarding books and newspapers made of genuine righteous paper while recording their contents on vile, accursed microfilm.

A jeremiad, a philippic, an imprecation against library professionals and all their friends who are bent on discarding books and newspapers made of genuine righteous paper in favor of accursed microfilm.

But the F-word is a powerful imprecation that carries a wish for subjugation and even annihilation.

It takes a single imprecation to launch the curse of Greer, and once it is launched nothing will stop it.

Certainly, the only thing that gets an inveterate two-screener like me to devote my full attention to the television nowadays is something with subtitles that won't allow me to look away, or a dire imprecation from the continuity announcer that the following programme contains violence or scenes of a sexual nature.

Yes, you were born in Portland, Ore., someone might well have asked Martin Wong, but, really — and this part is asked more as a threat or imprecation than out of inquisitiveness — tell the truth.

The Primal Curse that allegedly hounded the Bruce Lee family--and was most recently evoked in the March 31 shooting death of Lee's actor son Brandon--seemed to scatter a few imprecations over the head of "Dragon" as well (the Curse is a prominent element in the movie's story line).

Maybe all it takes is talc and the imprecation "Ven a mi".

The paper presents the findings of a survey of the imprecation phrase ma yi fei shi麻夷非是and its variations, as written (using brush and ink) on several thousand excavated covenant texts (mengshu 盟書) from Houma侯馬 and Wenxian 溫縣.