How to Use curse in a Sentence

curse

1 of 2 noun

• His fame turned out to be a curse, not a blessing.
• The witch pronounced a curse in some strange language.
• People believe that someone put a curse on the house.
• I heard him utter a curse before the microphone was shut off.
• Layne’s curse has been the stuff of legend for decades.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2022
• There’s range in her gazes, but no teardrops — the funny curse of the dry eye in the house.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
• Tech projects like these are more of a curse than a blessing.
  — Matthew King, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• And there’s also the obvious curse from the first episode.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The movie has a lot of that energy, which is a blessing and a curse.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• What Brennan knows, and Rose doesn’t, is that her wish will come to seem like a curse.
  — Meghan Racklin, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• The wrong one can destine you for results that seem like a Sisyphean curse.
  — Dr. Eric George, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Can this be the latest project to break the video game adaptation curse?
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 4 Jan. 2023
• Can a curse be reversed without the help of a celebrity witch?
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• The Nittany Lions live and die by the three-point shot, which can be a blessing and a curse at this time of the year.
  — Adam Burke, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• To know in advance that one is dying — is that a blessing or a curse?
  — Jack Thomas, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• The Flavor asked them if their hometown was a blessing or a curse.
  — Gary Campbell, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2023
• As a side hustle, Uber’s a curse, For the income could hardly be worse!
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• The wicked fairy could hardly come up with a curse more absolute.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
• Expectations are a heavy thing; there is talk of a curse.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
• As Joe was used to more adult scripts (and costars), the actor had to catch himself using curse words around set.
  — Taylor Murphy, Good Housekeeping, 18 Nov. 2022
• That can sometimes be the biggest curse of all time because the pitcher knows that, as well, right?
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
• Since its establishment in 1979, the Khomeinist regime has been a curse on Iran and a blight on the world.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2022
• Stevens gained the victim's trust and convinced her that a curse had been placed on her and her family.
  — CBS News, 13 Dec. 2022
• Austin is often ranked as one of the safest big cities in the U.S. Note, though, that the ubiquity of booze here can be a blessing or a curse.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2023
• The 7-4 Bengals started 0-2 and looked like a victim of the Super Bowl loser’s curse.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
• But the camaraderie can be both a comfort and an enabling curse.
  — Matt Kempner, ajc, 23 June 2023
• Now, the princess must gather enough strength from herself and her triplet brothers to undo a curse.
  — Sydni Ellis, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
• One of those obstacles is, as the title suggests, a curse.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• Oh, and the pilot features an angry little girl who puts a curse on them.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
• Their inquiries will soon enmesh them in the dramas of a merchant family convinced that a curse has doomed their son.
  — Alida Becker, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024

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curse

2 of 2 verb

• In the book the evil witch curses the villagers.
• She cursed her bad luck.
• He cursed himself for being so careless.
• Hill began to curse at Brown and then backed out and hit a car on 11th Street.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 18 Aug. 2022
• Those who answer the door are cursed to die or lose a loved one in three days.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 Sep. 2023
• Get out and enjoy the spring blossoms, and try not to curse the pollen too much.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
• The teachers curse throughout the video and one uses a racial slur at least twice.
  — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 25 Mar. 2022
• They’re cursed, and there’s no consensus on a cause or how to break it.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
• His team was close — curse-the-basketball-gods close, blame-the-refs close.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
• His older brother, Momin Jan Shams, got on the phone and yelled and cursed and urged him to come back home.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2023
• Hair that finds him, an hour before a big event, cursing at the mirror.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2023
• And San Jose, California, rounds out the top three cities that curse the most.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 30 Sep. 2022
• Oenomaus was then dragged to his death, cursing the name of Myrtilus.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2024
• One of Virginia’s former players said Coach Smith cursed him, which was a lie.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
• While en route, Wade began to curse and kick the windows of the trooper’s vehicle.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 22 Nov. 2021
• But the labor of ascending Anaka is far from exalting, and the men curse it the whole way.
  — David Denby, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• Your husband has been cursed by a bread fairy and is now bound to keep making dough until the spell is lifted.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• But, through the tears, curse words and laughter, Holland successfully finished the 10 spicy wings and the last dab.
  — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• Sometimes people – curse them all – fail to renew their tags on the prescribed date.
  — John Archibald | [e-mail], al, 7 Apr. 2022
• As fans of the book by Frank Herbert know, Paul is blessed/cursed with visions of the future, giving him great power.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
• Some have even gone as far as hurling insults and curse words at the 23-year-old Bryant on social media.
  — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 11 Nov. 2022
• In the predawn chill, the laborer curses his degradation; in the twilight, the bodies of Israelis are given to the earth.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• One of the females began to yell and curse at salon staff and officers and, when told to stand in one spot, refused to do so.
  — cleveland, 26 Aug. 2022
• Bowden was a Southern Baptist who didn’t drink or curse.
  — Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2021
• The handles on both the skillet and the pot stay relatively cool, which won’t lead you to curse the set and toss it after one bad burn.
  — Kate Bratskeir, CNN Underscored, 29 Oct. 2020
• If nicknames are destiny, then the F-4 Phantom II fighter was cursed at birth.
  — Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2023
• Either curse God and die or try to make the best of a really bad situation.
  — Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2024
• So it’s alleged that C S J owner Camino gave cursing her $4,000 for a car lease down payment, and that bids were.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 July 2023
• Anything short of that and the story probably remains the same, about how the Chargers are cursed and how Staley isn’t the coach who can change that.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Another guide muttered we’d be cursed after seeing the mating ritual.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024