misadventure

How To Use misadventure In A Sentence

• Poor Sulkorig is dead by misadventure, his head broken by the hoof of the Lord Constable's horse. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
• Unknown to him, Barbara had written her own reportage of Liberia: Land Benighted (reissued in 1981 as Too Late to Turn Back) is a masterpiece of comic observation and mock-heroic misadventure. Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
• Tender and gallant, you've rescued these hapless insects from all sorts of scrapes and misadventures.
• All the details from the coroner's court: and the verdict, death by misadventure. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
• The play then chronicles the subsequent misadventures of Charles, who now has to juggle two wives - one on either side of the mortal coil.
• He keeps having delightfully comic misadventures butting heads with the Doubting Thomases of the world, whom he calls "sheeple."
• Our bravest and best lessons are not learnt through success, but through misadventure. 
• The leadership's consistent flirting with disaster – whether it is famine, the ill-fated foray into supposed electoral politics in 2005, or the misadventures in Somalia – provides a clear image of a ruling party holding a nation in an extricable iron grip. When Doves Cry: US-backed Ethiopian regime imprisons opposition
• We don't believe anybody but Roberto could bring magic and fun to Pinocchio's misadventures in this classic tale.
• The tale of our misadventures is, like that of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, one for which the world is not yet ready.