Words similar to misfortune

Example sentences for: misfortune

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

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.
The newspaper described the procedure as "inconsistent" and "politicised," with "little connection with what is happening in the market for narcotics," and noted that it "also has the United States--the world's largest consumer of illegal narcotics--setting itself up as judge and jury of the poorer countries that have the misfortune to be suppliers."
Kutchins and Kirk appear to believe that attaching diagnoses to victims must necessarily be in the service of evil conservatism, but pathologizing misfortune is a technique more often employed by the left than the right--by those, that is to say, who want to mitigate responsibility by drawing attention to its causes, rather than those who want to assign blame.
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.
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.