Sentence examples for bit of misfortune from inspiring English sources

It's simply a bit of misfortune that the organization's full name suggests lunch-meat gladiators.

But it represented another bit of misfortune for an Eastern Conference rival, following the loss of the Miami Heat's Alonzo Mourning because of a kidney ailment.

"I rarely question their effort, but we were done by a bit of misfortune in conceding at the death," McDermott said.

They wondered if the blades had by chance closed uselessly on one of the nearly indestructible joints that connect drilling pipe -- a significant bit of misfortune, given a decision years before to outfit the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer with just one blind shear ram when other rigs were already beginning to use two of them to guard against just this possibility.

It's a little bit of misfortune but the second goal was poor.

"It's been a little bit of misfortune here and hard luck there.

CV used a bit of Apache misfortune in the 62nd minute and a Chris Sinani score in the 65th minute to defeat Arcadia, 2-1.

"Today we had a bit of luck after so many weeks of misfortune," the Freiburg coach, Christian Streich, said.

Last year, a stretch of misfortune threatened to disrupt the bit of normalcy she has been able to provide Jose and Alberto.

Though this sounds like a comfortable existence, cushioned by money and magic against the harsher realities of her time and place, Agustina is also a bit of a seer, and that's a misfortune, a curse.

Joseph Brodsky and the fortunes of misfortune.