How do you use Wretch in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like reprobate or miscreant, plus the exact meaning.
Wretch in a sentence
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Wretch meaning
- An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.
- An unpleasant, annoying, worthless, or despicable person.
- An exile.
Using Wretch
- The main meaning on this page is: An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person. | An unpleasant, annoying, worthless, or despicable person. | An exile.
- Useful related words include: reprobate, miscreant, poor devil, victim.
- In the example corpus, wretch often appears in combinations such as: the wretch, wretch like.
Context around Wretch
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wretch
- In this selection, "wretch" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, colonel, stained, desultory, formerly and luminaries stand out and add context to how "wretch" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a desultory wretch a man and a pathetic wretch. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wretch" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wretch
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As a human being he was a pathetic wretch. (9 words)
Wretch has cited James Blake and SZA as unlikely sources of inspiration for this record. (15 words)
Wretch: formerly the glamorous circus performer Miss Whackaway, now wife to Colonel Wretch and "horrible welfare worker". (17 words)
And now, O Lord, what remains to a wretch like me, but instead of defence, earnestly to supplicate you not to judge that fearful abandonment of your Word according to its deserts, from which in your wondrous goodness you have at last delivered me. (44 words)
Hud Bannon is a desultory wretch, a man without purpose straggling through life rather than living it, unable to break free from the damaged familial bonds that keep him tied to his father's failing cattle ranch in a dusty Texas panhandle town. (43 words)
But, wretch, you are neither Rachel, nor Jacob, nor Abraham, nor God; you are just a mad fool, and the popes who forbade the reading of the Bible were extremely wise. citation Voltaire's opinion of the Christian Bible was mixed. (41 words)
Example sentences (11)
Wretch: formerly the glamorous circus performer Miss Whackaway, now wife to Colonel Wretch and "horrible welfare worker".
Back to Ratcliffe: he is the 23rd sportswriter to be inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, joining ink-stained wretch luminaries including Bill Millsaps, Jerry Lindquist, Calvin Moses Jacox and Bill Brill.
Hud Bannon is a desultory wretch, a man without purpose straggling through life rather than living it, unable to break free from the damaged familial bonds that keep him tied to his father's failing cattle ranch in a dusty Texas panhandle town.
As a human being he was a pathetic wretch.
Im glad he will be standing next general election because no amount of violence, propaganda and playing with our votes will keep the wretch in power.
Wretch has cited James Blake and SZA as unlikely sources of inspiration for this record.
And now, O Lord, what remains to a wretch like me, but instead of defence, earnestly to supplicate you not to judge that fearful abandonment of your Word according to its deserts, from which in your wondrous goodness you have at last delivered me.
But, wretch, you are neither Rachel, nor Jacob, nor Abraham, nor God; you are just a mad fool, and the popes who forbade the reading of the Bible were extremely wise. citation Voltaire's opinion of the Christian Bible was mixed.
His figure was pleasing and majestic, but when angry, his eyes became so terrible that "the wretch on whom it was fixed instantly fell backwards and sometimes expired".
The second line, "That saved a wretch like me!" has been rewritten as "That saved and strengthened me", "save a soul like me", or "that saved and set me free".
When one removes the q and the i in quisling, the result is usling, Norwegian for wretch.
Common combinations with wretch
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: