You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.
It is to be like some wretched drunkard, who loathes the fiery spirit that is destroying him, body and soul, and yet goes on, madly drinking, till he dies.
He discovers that he and his fellows are made of very brittle clay: usually he loathes himself; often he loathes his fellows.
When a man loathes himself, he has begun to be saved.
Judas, not because of the hell-fire around him, but because he loathes the man that betrayed his friend, the world's friend.
But Timon, like Hamlet, generalises his bitter experiences, and loathes everything that bears the form or name of man.
The corps of cadets loathes a cribber as it does any other kind of cheat or liar.
At the best I am but a not unkindly, easy-going man who loathes being worried.
V But, as it oft befalls despairing wight, Who grisly Death desires till he appear; But loathes what he had sought, on nearer sight; So painful seems the cruel pass and drear.
He loathes thy Calf, O Samaria, the thing of wood and gold which thou callest Jehovah.
The assiduity of attendance, the liberality of gifts, the employment of wealth and art and patriotism in worship--he tells his generation that God loathes it all.
He loathes Mamie, though he tries not to show it, and plush is his special abomination.
And whoever he is and whatever he is, the Head loathes him impartially and dispassionately.
Agnes was in no humour to partake of the meal: indeed, she was in that state of mind when the individual rather loathes the idea of eating, through a total suspension of the appetite.
He was like a gambler who loathes himself for his ready yielding to a ruinous vice--but who nevertheless returns with renewed zest to the gaming-table.
Now, "wife" is one of the words he abhors; and he loathes the hearing of a girl as "engaged.
Earth yet adores my mighty name-- And, late, laments my doom, Nor longer wrongs the gliding ghost That loathes its island tomb.
And she loathes you, whereas I worship the ground you tread upon.
He loathes stabbing the poor gladiators when they have not quite been killed.
Just think of this thing going on the whole day long, and I a man who loathes details with all his heart!
There is not an Italian who loathes them more than I do; and whatever I could do to scour Italy and the earth of their infamous oppression would be done con amore.
They cannot bestow their hostility on one who loathes and execrates them more than I do, or who will oppose their views with more zeal, when the opportunity offers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loathes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
