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Example sentences for: misfortune

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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.
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."
I had the misfortune of watching one of the Barnes-Perdue debates on C-SPAN.
An individual may seek a limpia from a healer if the person is not feeling well with no specific cause or feels that bad luck or misfortune is prevalent in his or her life.
We pity a tragic hero such as Hamlet because his misfortune is undeserved, and we tremble at the realization that he is like us.