Examples of misfortune sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use misfortune in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for misfortune.
- But what a misfortune! (8)
- Oh dear, what a misfortune! (8)
- Misfortune, it is to be named. (10)
- There is the misfortune. (10)
- No misfortune can be like that. (10)
- Terrible misfortune to a fellow, Timson. (8)
- I was the cause of the chief misfortune. (10)
- I recognize the value of early misfortune. (10)
- Mr. Shaplow traces the misfortune to that. (10)
- I have the misfortune to know I was born an active. (10)
- That year I had the misfortune to lose my dear mother. (8)
- He knew that some queer misfortune had befallen Anthony. (10)
- He knew that some queer misfortune had befallen Anthony. (22)
- Misfortune reduced the size and number of its periodicals. (9)
- My misfortune has done its worst and has receded into the past. (12)
- But even when safe in dock, misfortune went with it to the last. (19)
- I could bear to hear of any misfortune but that she suffered pain. (10)
- In those two months misfortune has been very busy with me and mine. (12)
- On the whole I do not account this sort of familiarity a misfortune. (9)
- To eat while a bell is tolling for a funeral will bring misfortune. (21)
- By some means or other she must have had the misfortune to offend him. (4)
- He clearly could not learn from misfortune; he was not to be contained. (10)
- They at least do not regard him who lies there as one born to misfortune. (5)
- It was late to send into the by-ways and hedges to remedy this misfortune. (8)
- Though she had caused her misfortune, the evil was not done intentionally. (5)
- Must a maiden have met with misfortune, to make her feel a longing to weep? (5)
- He is the reverse, he is cheerful, he is indifferent to personal misfortune. (10)
- Once again I have encountered that demon of misfortune which dogs my footsteps. (8)
- She sent up an interjection on the misfortune of her not having been born a man. (10)
- She wants a hiding-place for her misfortune, and somewhere to go when it is over. (8)
- Rumours of pain and misfortune, she thought, must somewhere have their ground in reality. (12)
- The misfortune of your birth ought to make you particularly careful as to your associates. (4)
- I look upon her intimacy with those two sisters as the greatest misfortune of her life and mine. (4)
- Those who had held aloof from the young couple in their happy hours now drew near in their misfortune. (5)
- A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. (4)
- There is such experience of calamity there that you could hardly fall the first victim to any misfortune. (9)
- My state was lower: besides misfortune I now found myself exalted only to feel my profound insignificance. (10)
- At the request of your Mother I related to them every other misfortune which had befallen me since we parted. (4)
- He thought of it as of a debt she had contracted and might be supposed to think payable to their misfortune. (10)
- Politically it is accounted a misfortune for France that her nobles thronged to the Court of Louis Quatorze. (10)
- Hands may slip, feet may not hold, a horse may stumble, and there are numberless other chances of misfortune. (21)
- One would have been justified in saying that he went out to meet the misfortune which was so surely awaiting him. (5)
- Only her misfortune was to have a furiously jealous husband, and they say he went mad after hearing the verdict. (10)
- Land without heirs is a misfortune; but heirs without lands or wealth, among aristocrats, had better been unborn. (18)
- Was not that the disease, and the misfortune, of the age; perhaps of all the countless ages man had lived through? (8)
- But this is certainly my experience, that misfortune makes me feel more and more superior to those whom I despise. (10)
- Clean through the heart, does not tell us of our misfortune, till the heart is asked to renew its natural beating. (10)
- But the misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging. (4)
- Considering what human nature has the misfortune to be, it is wonderful that there was so little of violence and crime. (7)
- There was a writhing in the frame of the hearer, for she did want Love to be respected; not shadowed by her misfortune. (10)
- I was not her son, but he felt that this was my misfortune more than my fault, and he seemed more and more to forgive it. (9)
- They are born, it would seem, with more than the common allowance of kibes for treading on: a severe misfortune for them. (10)
- Imaginative creatures who are courageous will never be lopped of the hopeful portion of their days by personal misfortune. (10)
- I am extremely sorry you have had that misfortune, and would on no account do anything which might encourage you to incur it again. (8)
- Thomas Scoles, who exercised a great influence over her; but she succeeded in convincing everybody that even this was a misfortune. (8)
- In case of breakdown or other railroad misfortune, his section would speedily overtake and he would thus be soon in personal command. (21)
- I was saying, Richie, that if tremendous misfortune withholds from you your legitimate prestige, you must have the substantial element. (10)
- Material misfortune had this one advantage; it kept her from speculative thoughts of her lover, and the meaning of his absence and, silence. (10)
- The strain of sleeping in a moving train of cars at night and heavy hauling at day is tremendous, and strange, rough roads invite misfortune. (21)
- Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. (2)
- She sank on the floor of the room, conceiving with much strangeness of sentiment under these hard stripes of misfortune, that reality had come. (10)
- The shadow of misfortune restored the sense of my heroical situation, which my father had extinguished, and this unlocked the powers of speech. (10)
- Misfortune follows, too, even to winter quarters, where, perhaps, general impression assumes to the circus owner freedom from care and apprehension. (21)
- No stroke of retributive misfortune could have been severer to Rosamund than to be thrust forward as the object of humiliation for the man she loved. (10)
- The old horse followed tranquilly enough, but as he had done nothing to deserve his misfortune, neither did he feel any gratitude towards his deliverer. (8)
- The nobility disliked her; the court feared her; the common people, goaded by priests and sectaries, saw in her the embodied misfortune of their country. (12)
Also see sentences for: adversity, affliction, buffeting, calamity, catastrophe, damage, detriment.
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