Sentence examples for wretched on from inspiring English sources

The country remains one of the most wretched on the earth.

In this place described by journalists as one of the most wretched on earth, I felt somehow happier and more childlike than I ever had.

He moves deftly between the politics of Equatorial Guinea — the tiny West African country he claims to be the most wretched on earth — and the growing restlessness of Mann and his cronies.

It got more wretched on the return trip.

'Tsotsi' is also a slang term for a young black criminal, and the movie focuses on one such living in a wretched township on the outskirts of Johannesburg.

Wretched Merry, set on doing "no harm to the microscopic organisms that dwell in the air," fashions a mask from the foot of an old stocking.

Twelve years on, it has developed into a wretched curse on the civilizations whose foundations were laid in places like Palmyra and Mosul.

While Korea's future may look bright and shiny, the country has one of the world's more wretched histories on file: 1,700 years of intense slavery, then repeated brutalizations, first by China; later, during the Japanese conquest from 1910 to the end of World War II; and most recently during the Korean War, when the peninsula served as a scrimmage field for Russian-American aggressions.

I even got Microsoft's wretched puppy on the task, checking keywords.

"Our house was the most wretched looking on the street, a patchwork of cement and drainpipes.

Too many Indian peoples, once proud and free, now eke out lives of wretched humiliation on reservations.