Sentence examples for misfortune of losing from inspiring English sources

She considered for a moment the misfortune of losing two young children -- both 19 months old -- in the same family.

Tom Cavanaugh ("Providence") reacts to the misfortune of losing his job and his wife (to the mailman) in the same day by fleeing to his hometown, a recurring theme this season.

The misfortune of losing something doesn't mean we have to forget the happiness of once having had it".

These accusations, ridiculous and without merit, threaten to place an undeserved black mark on a program that has provided comfort to and assuaged the fears of thousands of Americans who have had the misfortune of losing a loved one to a terminal illness.

"He also didn't have the misfortune I had of losing my best player [Giuly] to injury after 15 minutes".

Shankar Survives As Sitars Don't Ravi Shankar, right, likened his misfortune to losing "two relatives".

— If New England's opponent Sunday were one that was less prone to self-inflicted mistakes, odd play-calling and general misfortune, maybe the Patriots would have been in danger of losing a game they appeared to have in hand.

The playwright and poet is much quoted for such lines as, "To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness," from his 1895 play The Importance of Being Earnest.

TO LOSE one decade may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.

To lose one bishop may be regarded as misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness.

TO LOSE one prime minister may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two in short order looks like carelessness.