Sentence examples for plight can be from inspiring English sources

Much of Wigan's plight can be boiled down to problems in attack rather than defence.

They found out just how bad their plight can be when they went to Russia in March 2000 to adopt Katya.

By some accounts, Europe's current plight can be traced to 1981, when Greece, still emerging from the aftermath of a military dictatorship, rushed to join the European Community — 14 years ahead of the much richer Austria, Finland and Sweden and even five years before Spain and Portugal.

By setting the main action in the eighteen-seventies, Wharton is able, at the end, to bring Newland and Ellen into a radically altered world in which their earlier plight can be seen as the product of a particular time and place.

Witnessing others' plights can be funny for observers, but may also trigger one to empathically cringe with the victim of the predicament.

Vast bureaucracies and networks of aid workers now revolve around camps, where refugees and their plight can easily be made visible.

She expresses real passion at the plight of women, who can be thrown out of doors by their husbands if they test positive for HIV (often it is the husbands who gave them the infection in the first place).

The plight of this community can be traced back to the outbreak of civil war in late 2012, when a majority-Muslim coalition of rebels known as the Séléka advanced on the capital and overthrew the government, committing atrocities on their path to power.

Experts have many ideas about how the plight of right-to-buyers can be eased (see below).

Such can be the plight of pioneers that what they may lack in talent, they make up for by being unafraid to go somewhere new, Michael Kimmelman writes.

Well, if The Wrong Mans is to be believed, there's a whole world of trouble awaiting the good Samaritan, and the plight of the innocent man can be deadly.