Sentence examples for case of bad fortune from inspiring English sources

For him, it was a terrible case of bad fortune.

An individual case of bad luck?

She said it was a case of bad luck.

Following their run of bad fortune, Coyle says it's now time the club started picking up points.

(Green hats are the height of bad fortune here; they suggests that the wearer has been cuckolded).

He demanded considerable sacrifices of those classes in Sweden who were lukewarm about the war effort once the years of bad fortune set in after 1709.

In my opinion, the public-goods argument goes as far as justifying a scheme of social insurance that indemnifies individuals against a certain degree of bad fortune.

AKRON, Ohio — They were men thrown hard against the rocks of bad fortune — out of work, their marriages broken, their youth, with its possibilities, behind them.

The following day, when I arrive at work, Ellen is smiling a smile that tells me the elevator of bad fortune has not quite finished descending.

Officials at the Art Gallery of Ontario hope the expansion will help reverse a spate of bad fortune.

(One might allow that very non-virtuous persons deserve some level of bad fortune or negative well-being).