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How to use wretches in a sentence

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These ungrateful wretches are apparently arguing that very few of them actually live beyond that age!
It implied, moreover, that the strikers were pitiful wretches whose problems should be addressed through social uplift or charity.
It has a few pitiful wretches for clubs, places which would, in Manchester, have been put out of their misery long ago.
The women and girls who prostitute themselves to these wretches are dissolute creatures.
I asked Miss D' Lish to send us a little info to help out those unfortunate wretches who might not be familiar with her life and work.
Even better, he's had a reply from one of the traitorous wretches planning to vote against the Bill later today.
If not, they are miserable wretches who are capitalising on people's misery.
These selfish ungrateful wretches not only had the audacity to return Howard but compounded their sin by giving him a seemingly compliant Senate.
I had to join in and march, unprotestingly, together with these raging wretches, towards an unknown bloodbath.
How I pity the unhappy wretches who are doomed to dwell in such a place!
You will agree, sir, that these wretches behaved like men whose nephews and grand-nephews were condemned in perpetuity to remain as poor as their ancestors.
I plan to see The Prisoner of Azkaban on Thursday, and even though that's a school day, I just know the cinema will be packed with mewling wretches anyway.
Will your readers kindly give just one moment's thought in comparing with their own, who are well fed, clothed, housed and cared for, the poor wretches I have described?
If the writers win, the publishers fear they'll be vulnerable to lawsuits by ink-stained wretches and so will be forced to excise freelance articles from their databases.
Instead, we get reasoned debates on how to force the world to love us or assurances that the ungrateful wretches should love us for their own good.
His picture of writers as frustrated, unpraised, unrewarded wretches, pitied at parties and whispered about among families, drew laughter and wry nods.
Certainly, the only reason they are not continuing at the moment as well is because the poor wretches are lying on the seabed.
Since the pampered little wretches have an acre of grass apiece and a daily bucket of sheep muesli, we took a dim view of their varying their diet with bark.
Lightning danced down from the sky, bursting single targets like ripe grapes or arcing between wretches in a terrifying game of leap frog.
And I imagine that you hold yourself above those despicable wretches?
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Something must be done to unthrone these wretches, or things will be worse and worse.
Some wretches had killed an Onondaga with the brutality of his own tribe, and were robbing him.
I know not what I ought to imprecate on the wretches who had spread a report of your death.
I did not utter this sentiment, for she would rightly have styled me the most ungrateful of unhung wretches.
In the name of God, look again, and see in what condition the wretches have got their raft!
This Fox was one of the most conscienceless wretches and desperadoes that ever lived.
Their delight is to increase the unhallowed circle of wretches like themselves.
The perfidious wretches then rushed forward, with gleaming knives.
You don't know what a provoking, stupid, careless, unreasonable, childish, ungrateful set of wretches they are.
The air was filled with groans and clashing of arms the floors were slippery with the blood of despairing and expiring wretches.
Some houseless wretches were slumbering under the arch of its fountain.
Could it be that these wretches were to be raised in incorruption?
The next day, the shrieking wretches were brought to the dockyard.
A few other wretches was marooned like me in the hotel corridors.
In fact, how many good-hearted wretches like Virin are there not walking about amongst us?
The two beastlike wretches groan and strain at their fetters.
They started for the Russian lines, toward one of the batteries which had so decimated the hapless wretches lying on the banks of the river.
Tom's whole soul overflowed with compassion and sympathy for the poor wretches by whom he was surrounded.
It was a heavy fire which overwhelmed these wretches with a thousand hailstones.
Raoul could have touched one of the two poor wretches by passing his fingers through the partition.
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