misfortune

Example Sentences

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A year after he lampooned a judge in a mocking poem, he had the misfortune of standing before him charged with seditious libel for a pamphlet satirizing the Church.

From The Wall Street Journal

Normally, others misfortune isn’t something I pile on, but oh, did that woman earn some scorn.

From Los Angeles Times

He’d taken a misstep and fallen backward, knocking over three men who had the misfortune of standing near the wall of the Alamo.

From Literature

We pay to insure our cars, homes and even our lives against misfortune.

From The Wall Street Journal

I never want to lay eyes on any Spiritualists again, and I wish to say clearly that I owe all my misfortune to that woman, my sister, Mrs. Underhill.

From Literature