Sentence examples for grievous misfortune from inspiring English sources
The beneficiaries were people doing everything right, who needed help in overcoming temporary (though grievous) misfortune.
I will tell you, if I may; and surely I may tell a friend about my own and my father's grievous misfortunes.
20 1 "Now I think that there is no further need even of words to show you that we shall be struggling, not for small or insignificant ends, but in a contest such that, if we are zealous, we shall obtain the greatest rewards, and if careless, we shall suffer the most grievous misfortunes.
This theory, which has recently gained wide acceptance, was formulated thanks to one of those grievous human misfortunes described by scientists as "a natural experiment".
This theory, which has recently gained wide acceptance, was formulated thanks to one of those grievous human misfortunes described by scientists as "a natural experiment". In Brussels, in the nineteen-nineties, a number of otherwise healthy young women suffered end-stage kidney failure, requiring dialysis or transplants.
None involved grievous violence.
Misfortune has been piled on misfortune.
