hateful object

Example Sentences

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Douglas, who said moving a statue like “Johnny Reb” simply outsources a hateful object elsewhere, said the Jefferson School’s proposal was meant to reimagine the realm of possibilities.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021

In all conscience, I was dizzy enough; and every pressure of that hateful object to her face bound me faster in a dungeon of utter hopelessness.

From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

I opened the hateful object which, by its tuberculous knobs, I recognised as the one least often unpacked.

From The Princess Passes by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

Remove from my sight this hateful object, which brings as a reproach before mine eyes thy crime and thy existence.

From The Cid by Corneille, Pierre

His hands were stretched out in front of him as though to keep away from his sight some hateful object.

From The Black Box by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)