curse

01. Please don't [curse] in front of the children; I don't want them to learn your bad language.

02. The old man [cursed] at the young boys who broke his window with a rock, calling them every bad word he knew.

03. I [cursed] myself for forgetting my swimming goggles when I got to the beach.

04. The witch put a [curse] on the princess to make her sleep until a prince awoke her with a kiss.

05. My wife has been [cursed] with a terrible memory for names; she even forgets mine sometimes.

06. Protesters were [cursing] the government for failing to keep the promises it made during the election.

07. When he told her he wanted to break up, she [cursed] him and then burst into tears.

08. The witch put a [curse] on the princess to make her sleep for a hundred years.

09. Only a kiss from a prince could lift the [curse] from the princess and allow her to awaken.

10. Ignorance is a [curse] which keeps our people from improving their lives.

11. The evil sorceress put a [curse] on all the baby fairies to keep them from learning how to fly.

12. There is a Chinese proverb which observes that it is better to light a candle than to [curse] the darkness.

13. William Gladstone once said that selfishness is the greatest [curse] of the human race.

14. Carlos Castaneda wrote that the basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a [curse].

15. African witchdoctors are said to have magical powers that help them make predictions, remove [curses], and establish links with ancestral spirits.

16. Voodoo ceremonies in Haiti are sometimes held to place a [curse] on someone.