Sentence examples for predicament by from inspiring English sources

He attempted to get out of his predicament by violence.

LAST month, when Mr. Braxton told me about his predicament by telephone, he sounded cornered.

Henderson seems shocked by his own predicament, by the riddle of age.

They eventually tried to release themselves from their predicament by detonating a derelict hydrogen bomb.

Several tried, flailing a little, to explain the current predicament by first defining the regime.

Mr. Krupkin said Roger Clinton had spoken to Chief Griggs about his son's predicament by telephone.

He is almost uniquely insulated from the junkie's predicaments by layers of money, attorneys, and privilege.

DeWitt seems to be fond of rescuing his characters from dire predicaments by means of convenient expedients, like gunmen falling out of trees, but is this parody or laziness?

It is admittedly not easy to deal with Nicolas Sarkozy – a volatile grandstander facing a difficult election within months and desperate to divert attention from his own failures and predicaments by abusing the ros beefs.

Elaine is consistently kidnapped by LeChuck, prompting Guybrush to attempt a rescue, although Elaine is usually more than capable of escaping predicaments by herself.

The debate over qat mirrors the one about Yemen's security predicament: driven by outsiders, fuelled by misinformation, prone to oversimplification.