How to Use misfortune in a Sentence

misfortune

noun
  • It was my misfortune to be chosen first.
  • Her injury was a great misfortune.
  • He blamed the party's misfortunes on poor leadership.
  • She endured her misfortune without complaint.
  • Have Spurs been struck by the most misfortune?
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Many people are hit with misfortune that is no fault of their own.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
  • But a woman there told him what seemed like misfortune was good luck.
    — Lynn Ischay, cleveland.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • But those who have the misfortune to lose it quickly change their minds.
    — Scott Sayare, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • His misfortune will turn around.
    — Dalton Del Don, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • Some have suffered bizarre mishaps and misfortune and five men have died.
    — CBS News, 30 Apr. 2022
  • And it doesn’t get derailed by one or two bits of misfortune on any one night.
    — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 15 May 2026
  • Their misfortune last season was not a one-off.
    — Noah Furtado, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Cochran-Siegle tries hard not to think about his misfortune the past few years.
    — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2022
  • And please, don’t make jokes about the misfortunes of others.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2019
  • There’s some luck involved with that, but there’s far more to it than misfortune.
    — Sam McDowell 5, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2026
  • To be clear, screens are not the only source of childhood misfortune.
    — Kendra Thomas, TIME, 5 June 2024
  • To stay in the moment, refuse to revel in the misfortune, and stick to the task at hand.
    — SI.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • A little misfortune, but Petit did a great job to keep it as a tie.
    — J.p. Hoornstra, Orange County Register, 16 May 2017
  • But Tech was poised to punch Texas back even before that bit of misfortune.
    — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 8 Feb. 2020
  • The way the team folded suggests the issue is more than misfortune.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 8 Dec. 2020
  • That will be the X-factor for his success or misfortune.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • What Birkin did have is je ne sais quoi, to her misfortune as much as to her advantage.
    — Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • To counteract the misfortune, throw a pinch over your left shoulder to ward off evil.
    — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Feb. 2026
  • To counteract the misfortune, throw a pinch over your left shoulder to ward off evil.
    — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Mar. 2026
  • One of the great misfortunes of human life is the fact that much of it is spent in a constant state of worry.
    — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 10 June 2025
  • Was his good luck merely the other side of Hillary’s misfortune?
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Pigot matched his best finish of the year with a fifth and now looks to shake off his misfortunes at road courses.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2019
  • This was not random misfortune.
    — Darius Johnson, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Over the next four games, football misfortune derailed the Saints.
    — Kambui Bomani, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • His son's death is the latest in a string of misfortune for Bobby Brown.
    — CBS News, 19 Nov. 2020

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