How to Use the curse in a Sentence

the curse

noun

• Having led the match tiebreak 6-3, the curse started to take hold.
  — James Hansen, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
• Chris Pratt fires off the curse during a comedic car scene.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 28 Apr. 2023
• But the curse of the castle continues to prey on his mind.
  — EW.com, 8 July 2024
• The only way to break the curse is to have the same person kiss her in her canine form.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
• What's a lovelorn witch to do but help a handsome prince break the curse plaguing his life?
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• Jet is not the only one in danger—the curse is already at work.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 10 July 2024
• That makes the trauma the crucial element for the curse.
  — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024
• Part three takes us all the way back to 1666, and reveals the origins of the curse haunting Shadyside.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2023
• The blessing and the curse of Australia, for us expats, is its distance.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023
• That will the curse that prevents him from returning to Legoland.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
• For a long time, Xavier's fan base liked to talk about the curse of playing at Villanova.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 7 Jan. 2023
• If this is the curse the series has been building up to, why does Whitney get away scot-free?
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
• After that traumatic event, each of them became the new host of the curse.
  — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024
• Forget the curse; that should be Torridon's new claim to fame.
  — Jessica Leon, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• Though Buck was still afflicted at the end of the hour, Minear confirms that Buck did break the curse.
  — Andy Swift, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
• This is the curse of trying to go bigger and broader with Showtime.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• However, fans feared the curse would never be broken when the first three games went to New York.
  — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
• The mom of two's mouth then dropped as her son smiled at her, before repeating the curse word for a final time.
  — Escher Walcott, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
• But even Rodgers couldn’t outrun the curse of the Jets, the team with the longest current playoff drought in American pro sports (12 years).
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Will Christie be able to unlock all her family’s secrets and escape the curse that has doomed so many over the years?
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 29 July 2023
• The beauty and the curse of the tennis scoring system is that a point like that has the same value as the point that followed a few points later.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 3 Sep. 2024
• This would create a moist atmosphere in place of the burning hot, dusty whirlwinds which are the curse of that region.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
• Compounding the curse is trauma from Rose’s past, which begins to bubble to the surface.
  — Tim Lammers, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
• As a plot device, the curse makes plain that Asher and Whitney believe, at least a little bit, in magic.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
• Fans blamed the curse for the team’s decades-long drought in World Series appearances, which finally ended in 2016.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
• By reshooting the final scene, Urueta believes the curse will be lifted and his luck returned.
  — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• Simply put, the leading maker of AI chips again fell victim to the curse of high expectations.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024
• Not least because this will now dodge the curse of being a Netflix live-action adaptation.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• But gun violence is the curse America has wished upon itself, and none of us is immune to it.
  — Jeff Yang, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
• Prompted by this unexpected gesture, AP tells Robert about the curse and asks for some money.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025