How To Use Ill-starred In A Sentence
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The ill-starred USS Pueblo itself has never been stricken from the Navy's roster of active ships.
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Again, the ill-starred Muhamed was driven from his throne, and took refuge in Malaga, the alcayde of which still remained true to him.
The Alhambra
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This regiment, again the ill-starred 14th, stood no chance.
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Craig Michael's hangdog portrayal of the libertine and ill-starred artist for the most part manages to avoid suffering genius/nutcase clichés.
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But on this day, almost sixty years since that ill-starred treaty, the stage of Brundisium was set for a wake, not a marriage feast.
Caesars’ Wives
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He has only met the man once, shortly after his ill-starred period at Spurs came to an end.
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This was to be the year when the horrors of the past were left behind, when the shadows of 1846 lifted and the ill-starred peasants celebrated in the bright dawn of a new year.
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It is all there because of the Minister's ill-starred network review, which he had great enthusiasm for.
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Perhaps, on one ill-starred day, Larry had exited the makeshift groggery after wetting his whistle excessively and turned left instead of right.
Perseus Spur
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This was also an ill-starred night for Chelsea.
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The first part deals with the ill-starred romance between Natasha and Andrei, and the second plunges into the conflict.
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This ill-starred expedition was the last sent from St. Domingo against the buccaneers, who thenceforward became the masters and lord proprietaries of Tortuga.
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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The other is Queen Catherine Parr, who had been his friend before she had the dubious honor of becoming the last of Henry VIII's six, mostly ill-starred wives.
Chasing justice in Henry VIII's England
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Othello's jealous rages grieved not only her, his ill-starred wife, but also all those under his command.
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In film, theatre and music, lovers are ill-starred because parents object, someone is married to someone else, etc. - in short, because they are prevented from being together.
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His first was a decade ago, singing Oroveso in an ill-starred Norma whose vocal highlights were Gary Rideout as Flavio, handily outsinging the Pollione, and Anna Caterina Antonacci as a dramatic Adalgisa with a very short top.
Auf wiedersehn, Donald
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The one blot on an otherwise pristine record is his ill-starred sojourn at Leicester, where he spent the thick end of £25m and left them with a team destined for relegation.
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But such fierce determination to prevail will be matched by the hosts, who want to sign off the ill-starred campaign with a flourish.
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But he has now recollected, one assumes through a careful review of his files, that he did indeed transmit warnings to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, although it is unclear whether Peter MacKay or the ill-starred Maxime Bernier held that office at the time.
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A tale of lust, class, treachery and retribution, Middleton's early 17th-century tragedy (the exact date of composition is disputed) follows the ill-starred loves of three women grappling for autonomy in patriarchal Florence.
Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
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During his ultimately ill-starred tenure in Manchester, Brandon's only achievement of note was taking Britain's best-supported side to the play-off semi-finals.
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As we read on to learn the characters' uncertain fates and the outcome of an assortment of thwarted or ill-starred romances, the novel is so enjoyable that it's easy to miss the more serious moral questions Goodman means to ask.
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman – review
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When she returned to Britain, her follow-up project, Early Doors, a sitcom about a Manchester pub and its family of barflies, was also ill-starred.
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Finally, plainly aware that the dam might well keep his name alive for posterity long after all other memories of his ill-starred presidency had faded, he closed with what was certainly a heartfelt request: “I hope to be present at its final completion as a bystander.”
Colossus
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Residents of Sheffield57, perhaps the most ill-starred condo conversion in recent history, are "euphoric" that developer Kent Swig and his junior partners on Thursday formally lost control of the project they began four years ago.
Sheffield Residents Plan to Party as Fortress Takes Over the Sheffield from Swig
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On the other hand he seems happy to pay for the repatriation of the bodies of a similar number of Spaniards who died fighting for Hitler during his ill-starred attack on the Soviet Union.
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It takes its name from a song written by George to analyse ‘the ego problem’ during the Fab Four's ill-starred Let It Be film-and-album project.
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He had an ill-starred spell in August, too, when Ipswich let in 12 goals in two games.
In-form Crystal Palace seal away win to steal Ipswich Town's mantle | Jeremy Alexander
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More to the point, the remnants of his ill-starred crew had struggled across a permanently frozen strait and died in a region, I knew from my research, where no navigable passage existed.
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Almost 5000 Allied troops died that day, and Capa, the ill-starred gambler, was fortunate not to be among the dead.
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That was what the USA forgot when it began its ill-starred adventure in Vietnam: it is one thing to have strategic ambitions but quite another to pay for them in cash and young lives.
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After King Charles VIII's ill-starred invasion of Italy, survivors of his guard settled in a remote village in the north of the peninsula where, to this day, the inhabitants wear tartan.
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Most of his cabinet colleagues spoke to him before he left to offer sympathy, including many whom he criticised in remarks made public in the ill-starred biography.
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an ill-starred romance
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From memory, the ill-starred City Life also began with someone being dispatched by a road accident, in which core characters connected to him were involved.
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Well, you have to remember that a lot of the important independent investigations that have been carried out were carried out by people not appointed under that ill-starred statute.
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By 2012, Palin will be among the smallest footnotes of American political history, but you have to give her credit: she certainly helped sink the ill-starred candidacy of John McCain.
First on the Ticker: Palin will not run for re-election
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Here the ill-starred prophet Peter of Wakefield had passed the last months of his life.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Canada's DMCA: unnecessary, ill-starred and doomed - Boing Boing
Boing Boing
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Snow can also be heard giving directions to his ill-starred actors.
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Ever since Atlanta's ill-starred Olympics of 1996, it has been accepted that good transport is the key to every major sporting event.
