Example sentences for: ill-fated

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

  • Maren shows how this previously underreported history set the stage for the 1992 famine and the subsequent ill-fated American military intervention.

  • "Wayne Gretzky reverts to old ways in ill-fated Cats cameo."

  • In 1912, for the sake of a few emperor penguin eggs, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and two members of Scott's ill-fated polar expedition endured what Cherry-Garrard called “extremity of suffering” from which only “madness or death may give relief.”

  • Three years ago Clinton himself proposed basically the same package of reforms for Medicare--a fact everyone seems to have forgotten since it was embedded in his massive, ill-fated Health Security Act.

  • Thus was Henry Kravis, co-founder of the leveraged-buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, introduced to the viewing public in the HBO film version of the 1980s business classic Barbarians at the Gate . The story of KKR's successful but ill-fated LBO of RJR Nabisco, Barbarians offered an indelible portrayal of KKR (and its competitors and allies) as made up of insatiable deal makers and game players.


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