Example sentences for: dilemma

How can you use “dilemma” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Going off lithium to prepare for a bout is not a way out of this dilemma, since in many cases lithium is not as effective the second time around.

  • The father, serving time for burglary, has already given one kidney to his daughter and his selflessness is now causing a dilemma for local surgeons and medical ethicists.

  • When Ralph Ellison died in 1994, he left behind thousands of pages of drafts and notes for the book he had been working on for 40 years--and a terrible dilemma.

  • After she left I was in a dilemma, wanting to cross the divide between friendship and a relationship.

  • His liberal critics, on the other hand, over Starr's no-win dilemma: He must investigate his own chief witness--a course that would invite all kinds of political fusillades--or turn the process over to Janet Reno's internal investigators.


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