How to Use curse in a Sentence

curse

1 of 2 noun
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  • 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
  • For King, missing time midway through the season is both a blessing and curse.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Oh, and the pilot features an angry little girl who puts a curse on them.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 10 Mar. 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 | Crobinson@al.com, 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 | Crobinson@al.com, 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 | Jarchibald@al.com, 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
  • But their ability to cast spells comes with a catch: Their family is cursed, and any man loved by an Owens witch is doomed to death.
    — Claudia Guthrie, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023

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