Sentence examples for be a misfortune from inspiring English sources

That could be a misfortune.

To drop one South African opener at slip might be a misfortune.

The only residual characteristic was the 4-foot 8.5-inch gauge, which was often thought to be a misfortune in being too narrow.

-- Will Rogers "If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if someone pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity".

Which are: is the item so closely connected with our history and national life that its departure would be a misfortune?

No learned committee could deny that he is so closely intertwined with our national life that his departure would be a misfortune.

It was a misfortune, not a crime.

But it is a misfortune, not a disaster.

To have lost one (parent, kidney, glove) is a misfortune.

"To lose them was a misfortune, to possess them no happiness," Rousseau wrote.

Losing a boyfriend, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, is a misfortune; losing him twice looks like carelessness.