Sentence examples for wretched sight from inspiring English sources
They were a wretched sight -- starving, barefoot, soaking wet and filthy.
Sarries also suffered the wretched sight of their England Saxons flanker Will Fraser being taken to hospital with a suspected broken foot and knee ligament damage after his leg was trapped during a Sale tackle.
The village was a wretched sight.
What a shambles, what a wretched mess.
Yet these words do what they can to keep before our eyes the sight of "the wretched strangers, / Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, / Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation".
One year, mysteriously, I found that we were driving far from his farm, up an isolated road, with nothing in sight except clumps of wretched rushes and the abandoned ruins from famine times.
There was a lot of wretched excess.
Those driving runs from Touré are a formidable sight, but there was something fairly wretched about the way Johnson simply retreated, backing away until Touré was in the penalty area and choosing where to put his shot.
"Our situation is almost as wretched as Bethlehem's, only there is a little hope in sight," said Timothy McNally of the Pomfret Board of Selectmen.
