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Example sentences for: misfortune

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

Portugal’s greatest misfortune struck on All Saint’s Day, 1 November 1755.
We pity a tragic hero such as Hamlet because his misfortune is undeserved, and we tremble at the realization that he is like us.
If you don't know the difference between the appropriate contexts in which to use two examples placed one after the other in your grammar book, it's a consequence of your mind's incapacity to grasp how things ought to be correctly expressed, not that you've had the misfortune of being born into the working class.
In his latest book, Enduring Love , this struggle to make sense of misfortune is an explicit enterprise, a contentious necessity for the novel's three main characters.
Woolf provides a nightmarish echo to Mrs. Dalloway in Septimus Warren Smith (Rupert Graves), an ex-soldier who has had the misfortune of witnessing a buddy being blown to bits in front of his eyes.