How to Use predicament in a Sentence

predicament

noun
  • I don't know how to get out of the predicament I'm in.
  • The governor has gotten himself into quite a predicament.
  • There is irony in this predicament.
    — Stewart Patrick, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2025
  • What else could have led to the predicament?
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Joe’s predicament is not unique.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This predicament is also where the name comes from.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Trixie’s dire predicament drives her to try to end her own life.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The struggling are blamed for their own predicament.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
  • That would have been a real predicament.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
  • And we’ve been trapped in this predicament for hundreds of years.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
  • There’s a two-step process to getting out of these kind of predicaments.
    — Wayne Chan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • That is the 49ers’ predicament.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • No one said digging out of the current predicament would be easy.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The left-hander got out of the predicament with an infield out.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2022
  • Resist the urge to find someone else to blame for your predicament.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
  • And to be sure, the Aggies are far from alone in this predicament.
    — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • But this is just one of the many predicaments of writing memoir.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Looking for a place to live, fortune throws him a doozy of a predicament.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Ralph and Carson saw my predicament, turned, and roared back.
    — Robert E. Houle, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Barnes and Gamble had their own predicament.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Lara Jean finds herself in quite a predicament in the third and last film.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Oh resolved to stay in touch — and to help others in the same predicament.
    — Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Redditors were quick to chime in with their thoughts on the pup's predicament.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
  • That’s a predicament the Padres are living.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Such is the predicament with Ayton.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • He's come up with a solution to their predicament.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • Same, which can make getting dressed quite the predicament, until now.
    — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2026
  • And that’s among the lucky, those privileged enough to even be in this predicament.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The woman explained her predicament in the video.
    — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • All of that resonates with the predicament of Lily Bart.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025

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