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:

  • 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.

  • When his team designed the ill-fated J30, they thought about toilet bowls and conceived their target customer as "the perfect asshole!"

  • 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."

  • He is buried with 2,023 of his warriors, who died in the ill-fated 1877 Satsuma Rebellion.


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