Sentence examples for wretched place from inspiring English sources

It used to be a wretched place, submerged by undergrowth and with a looted, derelict museum.

You're thinking about what landed you in this wretched place, which is hard to dramatize.

Neither, in Mr Miliband's view, does Britain.It is a wretched place, explained the Labour leader.

By the 1890s, most writers saw Depau Row as a wretched place.

It was, they said, a wretched place, peopled with girl who wear glasses and never get any husbands.

The smell of human waste hangs thickly in the hot, dry air.Angola is arguably the most wretched place on earth.

Abbott said it was a "decent and a humane impulse to give a better life to people from wretched places".

Blackwell's book presents vivid descriptions of these wretched places, along with both their polluters and the crusaders who are trying — usually without success — to clean them up.

Gautama was from Gwalior, a small city in Madhya Pradesh, one of those wretched places where the streets are narrow and crowded and where shopkeepers in the central market sell illegal postcards of satis sitting on bonfires.

The story also refers to Gautama's home town, Gwalior, which has a population of almost two million, as "a small city... one of those wretched places where the streets are narrow and crowded".

Indian casinos have channelled a staggering amount of money to some of America's most wretched places (though how much actually reaches the Indians themselves is a moot point).But the toughest barrier to overcome may be the most basic: Americans love to roll the dice.