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How to use imprecation in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word imprecation? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
But the F-word is a powerful imprecation that carries a wish for subjugation and even annihilation.
I don't know which bit of Channel 4's imprecation to leave McCririck didn't understand.
It is not unreasonable to stress this problem because we meet it frequently in the so-called psalms of imprecation.
In fact, my imprecation against evil is not addressed to this snake who can not hear me but rather to God who can trample on its head, and thus I invoke God: « 0 God, shatter the teeth in their mouths.
We shall therefore adopt the metaphor of imprecation against the serpent and make use of images appropriate to it, images that are expressive, picturesque, capable of transmitting an interior passion.
Examples from Classical Literature
It was tantamount to an expressed imprecation, that the thief might be devoured by the white shark the next time he went to fish.
It is easy to conceive that such an epithet as Dogon might get itself mixed up with the word dog, and so become an imprecation.
He vainly strives to rally under the fire of imprecation, but it is too late.
With an imprecation of wrath he called his companion's attention to the spot.
I suspect the last is only an umlaut form of a common Shakespearean imprecation.
Before they had gone far an eldritch shout of laughter was responded to by a burst of furious dismay and imprecation.
In what do anathema, curse, execration, and imprecation agree?
A torrent of imprecation rose to his lips, but he left it unuttered.
He laughed again in one low burst that was as spiteful as an imprecation.
An imprecation of a sufficiently emphatic character was the only reply.
Then, with an imprecation upon his lips, he turned and retired.
An imprecation on a person who has surpassed another in an undertaking.
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