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Example sentences for "spoiled"

Lexicographically close words:
spoake; spoaken; spoil; spoilage; spoile; spoiler; spoilers; spoiles; spoileth; spoiling
  1. He believed that if he had persevered in the race for wealth he would have been spoiled and buried years before.

  2. Madame Imperia died without being spoiled in shape, so much had God made her the irreproachable model of a woman.

  3. Sylvia stayed on for a while in Granada because she did not like to admit defeat, but the sadness of Rodrigo's death and the disappointment over Concetta had spoiled the place for her.

  4. She was never really taken in by it, but she submitted so willingly to being spoiled that, as she told herself, she could hardly blame Danny for thinking he was fast making himself indispensable to her happiness.

  5. He threw the jewels at her feet and left her like a spoiled child.

  6. She would have been so quickly generous if he had, but the preface about her being married had spoiled his concession.

  7. Half my pleasure in the hit has been spoiled by your not having seen it.

  8. Some of her satisfaction in Tetuan had been rather spoiled that morning by finding a visitor's book in the hotel with the names of traveling clergymen and their daughters patronizingly inscribed therein.

  9. She was not going to bask in the warmth of self-pity like a spoiled little girl that hopes she may die to punish her brother for teasing her.

  10. In my opinion Ibsen has spoiled the drama in England.

  11. Up to the present time, Julien de Buxieres had not been spoiled by Fortune's gifts.

  12. He describes it as "a very simple preparation enriched with eggs in such a manner as to give the air of a spoiled fricassee"; but adds that "notwithstanding its appearance, it is very delicate and nourishing.

  13. For next time they met Smith asked Rogers how he liked the club, and said, "That Bogle, I was sorry he talked so much; he spoiled our evening.

  14. Even one inspiration, you see, has completely spoiled this air, so that it is no use my trying to breathe it a second time.

  15. Many a fine deer head is spoiled forever by being cut off too close behind the ears.

  16. Many a fine head is spoiled by having the flesh left in the end of the nose.

  17. In not a single case did I ever fail to collect a desired specimen through lack of implements and preservatives with which to care for it, and only three or four specimens spoiled on my hands in course of preservation.

  18. One of these was an orang skin, the last one I took, which spoiled because I had to pack it up and travel with it without giving it even one day's drying; and the others were skins which spoiled while I was on my back with jungle fever.

  19. In short, if you can understand it, I've rather spoiled my sport.

  20. Not only had I lost the books, but I had lost the man himself: they and their author had been alike spoiled for me.

  21. On the other hand, the more favoured ones are a little apt to be spoiled by injudicious patronage.

  22. The whole thing was spoiled by an atmosphere of conscious edification and of condescending patronage.

  23. Thank God that I see thee without wounds and without chains," was the expression that escaped from him on his entrance; and he had almost spoiled his whole business plan, or at least reversed it.

  24. So was Marcus Antonius; and though he lost his game, he played for big stakes, and it wasn't his dandyism that spoiled his chance.

  25. If she had but clutched the old Roman and young American weapon, and come to close quarters, there might have been a chance for her; but it would have spoiled the best passage in "The Pleasures of Hope.

  26. Richard, Richard, I really must find some occasion to quarrel with you, that you may not make me altogether a spoiled child.

  27. But there is some excuse to be made for a wild, somewhat spoiled girl, Richard, who has never known love, or what it means, or what it is like.

  28. In everything else I was quite a spoiled child; but in this she was inexorable, and I am reaping the benefit of it now.

  29. She'll be spoiled when you come back," he concluded with a smile.

  30. And all on account of that infant, who had come into the world without being wanted, and had spoiled his life!

  31. A Mexican had been for six years engaged there in digging out saltpetre, with which he made powder, and the cave was much spoiled for research when I visited it.

  32. The snow beat upon her undefended head, and completed the demolition of the poor bonnet; but she comforted herself with the thought that its appearance would now be attributed to the bad weather having spoiled it.

  33. The poor thing's wedding-day will be quite spoiled by thinking about you, if you won't, Lettice.

  34. Her father had spoiled her; by his death she had become regenerate.

  35. In addition to her own affection for the Earl and for Mrs. Hart, she found a constraint on her here which she had not known while living the life of a spoiled and indulged child in her own former home.

  36. But then, in the old days, she was a petted and spoiled child, and would never try to work until the last year of her life with the Earl, after he had extorted from her a promise to do differently.

  37. Nor would this good General have consciously violated the truth in saying so; for in his heart of hearts he believed all this of his loved but sadly spoiled child.

  38. It is by no means intended by this, to affirm, that the South, like a spoiled child, for the first time denied some favourite object, may not fall into sudden frenzy and do herself some great harm.

  39. Rob not the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate; for the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

  40. The romance spoiled his career, but it was a godsend for his native village, where he laboured till the day of his death, expending the whole of his professional income in works of charity.

  41. There was probably a good cartload of spoiled lead strewn there, and the dark face of the rock was pitted all over with grey bullet-marks.

  42. It is a generous service as a gentleman, before careless parents, would give to their naughty, spoiled child.

  43. We are spoiled boys yet, taught by worse teachers, offending, and insulting each other for no other reason, but because we do not understand ourselves.

  44. A spoiled woman may ensnare a weak man, and a soit disant orator ensnare also an ignorant people.

  45. But, you, spoiled children of more happy governments, you should not, at least, laugh at our nakedness!

  46. Many a man has been spoiled by attempting literature; and I have known one or two whose whole future lives were rendered useless by the mere fact of their having indited a pamphlet.

  47. I would that aspect never might be changed; Nor that fine form, so spirit-like, be spoiled With fuller light.

  48. But it takes more to make a spoiled young man happy than -- " "Than a spoiled young woman?

  49. He really is a good deal spoiled by all those six sisters.

  50. Miss Beveridge had beautiful features, but the listless gloom of her expression spoiled what beauty she might still have possessed.

  51. I lost it because I got drunk and spoiled my job.

  52. But, on the very day he discharged him, a man from another town had applied for work, and the spoiled job was made an excuse for discharging a journeyman, whose habits of intoxication had always been offensive to the master-workman.

  53. You've been spoiled at home, and it'll do you good to toe the mark.

  54. You have spoiled your older children by mistaken kindness, and will spoil the rest.

  55. She is growing up a spoiled child, and needs other care than yours.

  56. I spoiled some work, and Mr. Davis said I should pay for it, and so he took half a dollar from my wages.

  57. Peaks spoiled his plan by throwing a boat grapnel into the fore-sheets of the cutter, and hauling her alongside of the Josephine as her sails shook in the wind.

  58. But he is a flunky, and spoiled all our fun in the Josephine.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spoiled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.