Sentence examples for that wretched thing from inspiring English sources

"Where's the ghost?" "Gone, that wretched thing.

Goodness knows what the Daily Mail would have said about such wanton irreverence towards the Queen-Empress: but the fortunate folk of 1874 didn't have to consider that, since the wretched thing wasn't published until 1896.

And it's clear that Bond, for all his joking about it, will cherish the wretched thing going forward.

I'm only introducing the wretched thing because it's what gardening correspondents are supposed to do.

Is the wretched thing going to lead some sort of Robo-spartacist uprising?

And anyway I often lost the wretched thing long before I got anywhere near a shop.

But, he added, "the Euro-maniac Blair" would have to concede a referendum on "the wretched thing".

You can argue for a dead battery or spill a cup of coffee on the wretched thing.

As one Twitter wit put it when I posted a photo of the wretched thing: "Certainly sir, a two-bed maisonette.

Though a more pluralist paper than the wretched thing it was in 2008, with some admirable reporters and classy columnists, it springs from London's Tory and big money establishment and when the heat is on behaves accordingly.

In 2003, "I turned my ankle within moments of walking onto the Heath and thereafter the wretched thing became the centre of my attention"; by 2006, "when I got up for a pee in the middle of the night neither leg seemed to be working properly".