Sentence examples for dreadful misfortune from inspiring English sources
I've tried the service myself and had the dreadful misfortune of owning one of very few phones the company says do not work well with the system.
The loss was regarded by Queen Mary I of England as a dreadful misfortune.
But it was Italy's dreadful and thoroughly undeserved misfortune to find themselves so handicapped that they were unable even to compete respectably.
Besides being saddled with a dreadful pitching staff, the Rangers had the misfortune of playing in the same division with the Seattle Mariners.
The women of the valley and their German occupiers, equally distressed by the snows of a dreadful winter, learn to be comrades in misfortune.
The 12th century historian William of Malmesbury records the story of a woman who, upon hearing a jackdaw chattering "more loudly than usual," grew pale and became fearful of suffering a "dreadful calamity", and that "while yet speaking, the messenger of her misfortunes arrived".
But Lester has already missed time in the spring with arm fatigue (terrible, random misfortune!) while Epstein decided to send top prospect Kris Bryant to the minors, thereby giving the Opening Day third base job to the decidedly dreadful Mike Olt (bringing misfortune on themselves!) In conclusion, this is the Cubs.
The death of a volunteer soldier is less dreadful than the death of a conscript; the death of either perhaps less dreadful than that of a civilian who had the misfortune to live in a strategically important town.
Misfortune has been piled on misfortune.
Also: misfortune hunters.
