Sentence for unfortunate | Use unfortunate in a sentence

Sentence using the word unfortunate. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use unfortunate in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for unfortunate.

  • Our traditions are unfortunate. (10)
  • This is fery unfortunate, look you! (8)
  • The unfortunate woman was in great distress. (5)
  • The cases of alleged bias he cites are unfortunate. (16)
  • It may be unfortunate that I have the ideal in my head. (10)
  • She has always insisted that you have an unfortunate nose. (10)
  • The unfortunate valet placed the bottle on the little table. (8)
  • It is very unfortunate for you that this man has behaved as he has. (8)
  • Nothing more unfortunate could have occurred; he spoilt the party. (10)
  • An unfortunate love-affair caused him to consider entering the church. (3)
  • The two chariots, however, by some unfortunate fatality continued abreast. (8)
  • The unfortunate impresario is a ruined man; let us both condole with him. (10)
  • I thought you would probably have your own side of this unfortunate matter. (8)
  • What happened to this second Melchior Ueberhell whose unfortunate history…. (5)
  • He is rough, and you have often been against him, for one unfortunate reason. (10)
  • The car struck him on the head, and the unfortunate man was killed on the spot. (8)
  • Her coming there was the most unfortunate, the most ill-judged thing in the world! (4)
  • Unfortunate mining speculations had swallowed up the greater part of his fortune. (12)
  • That is why I warn you of being most unfortunate if you are a sensational whipster. (10)
  • A surge of feeling came up in Laurence for this creature, more unfortunate than himself. (8)
  • Would she not see that his championship of the unfortunate man Dr. Shrapnel was heroic? (10)
  • They had committed terrible outrages for many years upon the unfortunate Yankee settlers. (19)
  • The heart of the unfortunate gentleman listening to Dr. Middleton set in for irregular leaps. (10)
  • So, I do not complain of your phrase, but I had the unfortunate privilege of hearing it uttered. (10)
  • I merely point out her unfortunate way of seeking redress; beyond that I do not presume to judge. (12)
  • All believe Friday an unlucky day, and are sure there are fortunate and unfortunate hours in every day. (21)
  • Thither was our unfortunate conducted, and there he was bidden to empty forth the contents of his pockets. (2)
  • He was rejected, but Diana groaned over the task of replying to the unfortunate applicant, so as not to wound him. (10)
  • Between a lady and an unfortunate young woman, there seemed to be a strong distinction, in the minds of the company. (10)
  • You are fortunate if you have a solid and adventurous mind: most unfortunate if you are a mere sensational whipster. (10)
  • He could open her eyes to the dangerous downward slope of the path which she pursued with such unfortunate cheerfulness. (12)
  • He had been sobered, apparently, by experience; his unfortunate love-affair seemed to have improved him, as the phrase is. (9)
  • They do a good work while they attend with their theories to the sick and the tame old, and the good unfortunate deserving. (8)
  • She was prepared to be wet through, fatigued, and frightened; but the event was still more unfortunate, for they did not go at all. (4)
  • Always was this unfortunate gentleman entangling himself in a passion for maid or widow of the Wells and it was desperate, a fever. (10)
  • We are so willing to be lenient to the unfortunate, for a Greater than we has visited them with sorrow such as man could not inflict. (5)
  • After my unfortunate speech, Mr. Pollingray shunned our house for two whole weeks, and scarcely bowed to us when coming out of church. (10)
  • Another unfortunate use of the dormer-window motif is the extension of the second floor up through the lower slope of the gambrel roof. (17)
  • But beneath all is still the strong drift of a genuine emotion, a sympathy, deep and sincere, with the poor, the lowly, the unfortunate. (9)
  • How could he have imagined that the unfortunate young creature whom he had saved from disgrace would show such courage, such rare skill? (5)
  • It would have been unfortunate for instrumental music if the small though sweet tone of the Amati violin had been accepted as the ideal. (3)
  • The bristling demeanour of Alan Breck and James Mor (a very gallant but distinctly unfortunate son of Rob Roy), seems a correct picture. (2)
  • The first effect of her discriminating condescension on this unfortunate gentleman was to make him the champion of her claims to breeding. (10)
  • Again he stopped to recover himself; and Elinor spoke her feelings in an exclamation of tender concern, at the fate of his unfortunate friend. (4)
  • He thought it a very degrading alliance; and Lady Russell, though with more tempered and pardonable pride, received it as a most unfortunate one. (4)
  • Incidents of a kind casting ridicule on our unfortunate nature instead of our conventional life, provoke derisive laughter, which thwarts the Comic idea. (10)
  • The friendliness of his disposition made him happy in accommodating those, whose situation might be considered, in comparison with the past, as unfortunate. (4)
  • When the spring came, nightingales, redbreasts, finches and thrushes without number sang their merry notes above the head of the unfortunate one who lay there. (5)
  • Sometimes she could believe Willoughby to be as unfortunate and as innocent as herself, and at others, lost every consolation in the impossibility of acquitting him. (4)

Also see sentences for: calamitous, deplorable, disastrous, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless, unhappy.

Definition of unfortunate:

  • unfortunate, un-for’t-nt, adj. not fortunate, prosperous, or successful. | n. one who is unfortunate, esp. a fallen woman. | adv. unfor’tunately. | n. unfor’tunateness.(0)

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