Sentence examples for plight i from inspiring English sources

His letters obsessively report his plight: "I am swallowed up.

"When they called me about their plight, I thought it made sense," Mr. Klein said.

Glenn W. Smith New Orleans, July 20, 2008 • To the Editor: As I read of Diane McLeod's unfortunate financial plight, I was struck by the photograph of her with cigarette in hand and ashtray on table.

In his Nobel speech, Wiesel spoke majestically of the need to ameliorate suffering, which "applies also to Palestinians, to whose plight I am sensitive, but whose methods I deplore when they lead to violence...

For I haven't just imagined their plight; I've lived it.

"Did anyone understand the plight?" I asked him.

But politics seems to be her default setting - you can ask a question on almost any subject and she will soon veer off into the plight of the Chechens, the Bosnians, the Iraqis - so many people, so many plights, I lose track and occasionally wonder if she does, too.

The father-of-four, who is approaching day 70 of a life-threatening hunger strike to highlight his plight, said: "I hope I do not die in this awful place.

"I was touched by young Will's plight so I'll tell you what I'm going to do: If I find out that anybody has hassled this young man or teased him or called him a wad of any sort, I and perhaps a few of my friends will come to his school and bring a world of pain.

I so related to Joan's plight; when I had my son almost a decade ago, I was almost ashamed of the fact that, though I love him a lot, there were many times during my maternity leave when I wanted badly to be back among my co-workers.

I understood their plight because I had become one of them, a person who elicits from passers-by either total avoidance of eye contact or ill-concealed looks of pity.