ill fortune
Example Sentences
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Okrepkie, 45, a commercial real estate agent, was displaced through ill fortune.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025
It illustrates the quality and depth of the Arsenal squad that despite such remarkable ill fortune with injuries this campaign, they remain in contention for a Treble.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2023
Either they bestow blessings or curse a person with ill fortune.
From Salon • Aug. 29, 2019
A few nice breaks, along with some good clutch play, are not enough to reverse a decades-long sense of ill fortune and black clouds.
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2018
The reckless passion of the heroine, Arabella, for a wicked foreign count is punished by ill fortune when she contracts cholera during an impetuous dash toward a seaside town with her intended.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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