Sentence Examples

1. Lucious killed members of his kind without a second thought, and it made her skin crawl at the sordid image engraved in her memory.
2. Now the entire town would think Rusty and I were having a sordid affair before lunch.
3. She made me nervous and fearful that she may be able to convince Holly that she and I did have a sordid affair.
4. Would he have wanted to wallow in the sordid details of the terrible things people did to one another?
5. That he had once, by way of experiment, privately removed a heap of these stones from the place where one of his yahoos had buried it whereupon the sordid animal, missing his treasure, by his loud lamenting brought the whole herd to the place, there miserably howled, then fell to biting and tearing the rest began to pine away would neither eat, nor sleep, nor work, till he ordered a servant privately to convey the stones into the same hole, and hide them as before which when his yahoo had found, he presently recovered his spirits and good humor, but took good care to remove them to a better hiding place, and has ever since been a very serviceable brute.
6. Now, if you would only tell me where we might find this monk and his dragon pet, we can dispense with this sordid affair and end your life quickly and painlessly.
7. I did indeed observe that the yahoos were the only animals in the country subject to any diseases which, however, were much fewer than horses have among us, and contracted not by any ill treatment they meet with, but by the nastiness and greediness of that sordid brute.
8. The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance when time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined.
9. Willie had no idea of national or international boundaries to him, his own sordid corner of Dundee was the world.
10. Why the devil did these people choose Dundee to fight their sordid little war?