Sentence examples for wretched as from inspiring English sources

Life had been wretched as a child and young person.

Meanwhile, Indiana's offense was as wretched as its defense.

For its residents, life has remained as wretched as ever.

But the system, wretched as it is, is the system.

His face is creviced and wretched, as if he had been on a lifelong binge.

As wretched as the BLT breakup has been, there was a time when the partners were welded by mutual need.

If you ignore the helmets, you might conclude that India's decision, ten years ago this summer, to abandon economic planning and open up to global markets had enriched the privileged but left the poor as wretched as ever.

About John Wayne playing Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror," Mr. Ito said it was "universally acknowledged as one of the Duke's most wretched performances, as well as one of the worst casting decisions in Hollywood history".

If Mockus is elected, he'll have to deal with a congress dominated by Santos's wretched U party, as well as the reality that the drugs war can neither be abandoned nor won.

There was something about the monetary figure that struck him as wretched.

The mosque was supposed to signify the revival of those expelled, the Crimean Tatars, a Turkic ethnic group that suffered as wretched a fate as any under Communism.