Sentence examples for were in wretched from inspiring English sources

Library officials, at any rate, were convinced that the disks were in wretched shape.

It then turned north and very soon they were in wretched streets: big unkempt houses, without rails or fences, dustbins outside front windows.

The League Two side have been in wretched form since that game but Sampson feels all the pressure will be on Roy Keane's Ipswich.

Most recently, parliament has threatened to unpick a big deal with Renault, the French car-maker, to produce a new car.Without oil at its present sky-high price, Iran's economy would be in wretched straits.

But last year's Masters winner has been in wretched form, with seven missed cuts in his past 12 events.

"Before, the Shiites were in a wretched condition".

Since these dolls were often in wretched shape, it was Lichtman's job to both do repair work and sew made-to-order doll clothes for them.

At Salisbury Smallwood's men were "in a most wretched situation for want of cloaths of all kinds". When Sumner took command of his new brigade at Ramsay's Mill he found the arms in bad order, a shortage of ammunition, no organized commissary, and one-third of his soldiers scattered about at various farm houses threshing out wheat.

Yet today the Arabs are in a wretched state.

North Korea's economy is in a wretched state.

The humans, by contrast, are in a wretched state.