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Example sentences for "loathe"

Lexicographically close words:
loaned; loaning; loans; loant; loath; loathed; loathes; loathing; loathly; loathsome
  1. O spirits, your prison loathe and freedom gain you; The destinies in deep laments have shut you Of mortal hate, because they do disdain you, And yet of joy that they in prison put you.

  2. He would loathe this house after what occurred last night, and he thinks I am in an unholy set.

  3. I was wandering aimlessly about; as I have told you before, I never play, I loathe cards too much.

  4. If you only knew how I loathe it," she cried, in a fervent tone.

  5. I loathe the domination of woman, but I ever crave for her influence, and I believe that any man of refinement and thinking, that any lover and admirer of woman, will echo this sentiment.

  6. Mayhew is ordinarily a charming companion, as were no doubt the two or three dozen other war correspondents who shared our fate, but I grew to loathe his presence almost as bitterly as he came to loathe mine.

  7. I fly her lust, but follow beauty's creature, I loathe her manners, love her body's feature.

  8. I am loathe to wound the feelings of any one, but a practice so well calculated to corrupt the church of Christ, so contrary to the spirit of Christianity, must and shall be exposed.

  9. The vision flies As I advance; while always far ahead Its glow makes dim the color of my days; And I loathe life because my hope is fairer, And know my hope a lie.

  10. The struggle continued to the very lugger's bulwarks, for the attacking guard were more numerous than their foes and felt loathe to leave them go.

  11. Placing it tenderly 'neath his chin, he proceeded gently to draw the old bow across the strings, gently as if he was loathe to awaken the slumbering form on the bearskins near at hand.

  12. The adventure of coming in contact with the watchman and the idea of meeting the celebrated King of Prussia harmonised with the lad's daring spirit and he was not loathe to remain.

  13. I am loathe to think it, and indeed it would be almost as great a marvel as the other to find that Van Helsing was mad, but anyhow I shall watch him carefully.

  14. She said to me very sweetly, 'I cannot tell you how I loathe talking about myself.

  15. I was, in fact, beginning to shudder at the presence of this being, this UnDead, as Van Helsing called it, and to loathe it.

  16. I loathe goals more than any other impertinence.

  17. To you my touch will always be a martyrdom, you will always loathe me, and therefore I shall not weary of you for a long while.

  18. Your father shall have all the wealth and state that even his greedy imaginings can devise, so long as you can contrive to loathe me.

  19. Think how unhappy I would be if even now I loved you, and how I would loathe myself.

  20. For you loathe me and you still worship my sister-in-law, an unattainable princess.

  21. When you have once seen Christ robbed of a soul that might have been His, by the infidel of genius, you will loathe all this Laodicean cant of tolerance as I do!

  22. They go to see her--but they loathe her--and they let her know it.

  23. And in another: I loathe the pride of Jacob, and his palaces I hate; and I will give up a city and all that is in it.

  24. I hate, I loathe your feasts, and I will not smell the savour of your gatherings to sacrifice.

  25. And this bringeth me to the gravest part yet, and that which most I loathe to make mention of, seeing it is not otherwise to be accomplished than in our continued severance.

  26. I said nothing, so deeply did I loathe him.

  27. Nay e’en when Bráhmans first have fed, They loathe the meal for others spread, And from the leavings turn with scorn, As bulls avoid a fractured horn.

  28. My meaner foot shall never touch The demon whom I loathe so much.

  29. He had said something to her during that walk, you may be sure, which had made her loathe him.

  30. She grew absolutely to loathe his perpetual smiling and bowing; his instant agreement with the slightest opinion she uttered; his veering round as she blew the wind.

  31. I don't get you men to come here to make you drunk, but to get you to loathe drunkenness.

  32. I do loathe this talk of mild, weak, universal love.

  33. Once having tasted the joys of invalidism he was loathe to forego them, and insisted upon being regarded as a chronic convalescent.

  34. Calvary Alley, having offered a standing invitation to germs in general, was loathe to regard the present one as an enemy.

  35. I am so impressionable that even this gave me a twinge; how I loathe that man!

  36. It is very late, but I do not want to sleep, for I am loathe to part with the memories of the day.

  37. Even though I knew so well that he could be nothing to me; that if he knew the truth, he would loathe me; that soon the day would come when I should scarcely dare to raise my eyes to his before we parted forever.

  38. But there are other times, such as these, when I loathe myself and the part I am playing; when an unutterable horror comes upon me, and I see myself and my purpose in hideous, ghastly colors.

  39. When Hayy, after his digression into the higher world, returned to the sensible world, he began to loathe the troubles of this mortal life on earth, and became very anxious to return to the same state he had been in before.

  40. BR> O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loathe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abhor; despise; disfavor; dislike; execrate; hate; loathe