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Example sentences for: unfortunate

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

Aggies called it an unfortunate tragedy , but argued that the tradition was too important to abandon.
'] 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.
And the Star couldn't refrain from running a truly unfortunate time-lapse sequence of the actress picking her nose in public.
She was a less-than-fit mother with a drug habit, which was unfortunate (she has since stopped using drugs).
Lately, the public sees her as that unfortunate victim of her husband, Othello 's Desdemona.