Sentence examples for cursed him for from inspiring English sources

I'd rolled my eyes and cursed him for an old man.

She cursed him for being "a bloody big 'ead" and was constantly nagging him to "shift yer bloody books".

They heard how she in turn beat him, a dirty, unkempt boy who went begging for breakfast cereal, and cursed him for being dark-skinned.

Some cursed him for having given away the Empire, but there was no choice, really, with these winds of change blowing through Africa.

But at the actual birth she hadn't permitted him to help, and had cursed him for putting her through such agony.

In a longer account of what he witnessed posted on Facebook, Mr. Bushra, who is a Coptic Christian, wrote that, after he was attacked by a mob of men in plain clothes who cursed him for his religion and stole his phone, he showed a police commander his American passport and demanded protection.

Future generations, he says, might curse him for such a move.

Should researchers be toasting the Chancellor for his foresight and commitment, or cursing him for his failure to invest more?

Moments later, Suzuki rushes in, dragging Goro and cursing him, for he has been spreading the lie that no one knows the identity of Trouble's father.

She said Mr. Rodriguez put the cigarette in Mr. Santiago's ear to get him to turn his head to look at Ms. Soto so that she could curse him for cooperating with the police.

Perhaps this is the point, like the speechlessness that curses him for two-thirds of the book (importantly, his name means "messenger" or "prophet"): a Joycean comment on shrinking significance, the epic becoming prosaic, tragedy repeating as farce.