misfortune

How To Use misfortune In A Sentence

• She's suffered a good deal of misfortune over the years.
• It is also her misfortune to have been saddled with an unappetisingly needy role. Times, Sunday Times
• The dangers for girls were especially acute: “It is estimated that two-thirds of the girls who appear before the Court charged with immorality owe their misfortune to influences derived directly from the movies, either from the pictures themselves or in the ‘picking up’ of male acquaintances at the theatre!” A Renegade History of the United States
• The announcement hushed the crowd but soon the hubbub returned and the misfortune was forgotten.
• Investments that rely on the misfortune of others or the good will of sharks are a losing proposition in the long term, whatever the quarterly earnings report says.
• I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Chapter 1
• Various strokes of misfortune led to his ruin.
• Any one can stand his own misfortunes; but when I read in the papers all about the rascalities and outrages going on I realize what a creature the human animal is. Mark Twain: A Biography
• That's because he very nearly lost the lot through a catalogue of misfortune three years ago. Times, Sunday Times
• In the duty of accumulation -- and I call it a _duty_, in the most strict and literal signification of that word -- all below a competence is most valuable, and its acquisition most laudable; but all above a fortune is a misfortune. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers