Example sentences for: unfortunate

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

  • It seems that most people view Linda Tripp (Linda Tripp: Victimized or Vicious) as some kind of wicked stepmother, and that is unfortunate.

  • It is unfortunate that your writer elected to treat this topic with a flippant disregard for the emotional stress associated with impotence.

  • In Ukrainian, for instance, the word bidni refers to an unfortunate, pitiable soul.

  • Calling for a return to the older British tradition of having roast beef or goose, right-wing political columnist Simon Heffer said turkey was "yet another unfortunate example of the Americanisation of our glorious culture."

  • '] Officials at the Ministry for Cultural Recidivism, alarmed that the proliferation of the posters could create an unfortunate conception in the minds of French children that the imperfect subjunctive tense of the verb jumbo frankfurter dated all the way back to Rabelaisian times--thus lending the expression a certain historical pedigree--immediately ordered the copywriter's arrest.


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