Sentence examples for unfortunate offspring from inspiring English sources

Forbes.com called it "a truly unattractive car that might have been the unfortunate offspring of a tryst between a Volkswagen Thing and a Honda CRX".

Weighing in at an overblown two and a half hours, Use Your Illusion was the unfortunate offspring of internal squabbling and Napoleonic arrogance.

"I think you'll find music a fertile ground for unfortunate offspring of famous parents - Julian Lennon's pretty pony I reckon," writes Chris Walkling.

(I speak on this matter with authority, having once owned a Dodge Rampage, the unfortunate offspring of a bad car -- an Omni subcompact -- and a sad truck. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time).

ITV attempts to restore that particular tradition, as the Birds flit south from chilly Chigwell to Morocco, on the hunt for Tracey's unfortunate offspring Travis, who has gone awol on his gap year.

And what's even more remarkable is that they built the $21,995 Aztek a truly unattractive car that might have been the unfortunate offspring of a tryst between a Volkswagen Thing and a Honda CRX.

But most of the offspring, "however unfortunate, were far from disgraceful," Mr. Gottlieb writes, "and would attract no opprobrium (and no attention) if they didn't have the Dickens name attached to them".

When you eat the offspring of these unfortunate hens, you are not eating an egg: you are eating what I call a fung-egg, an egg combined with the fungus and synthetic hormones and antibiotics that comprise it.

British parents are often too embarrassed to talk about where babies come from with their own offspring, he says, so some unfortunate children reach puberty before anyone has prepared them for the physical changes it brings.

"Home Comforts," an encyclopedia of home maintenance, is essentially conservative: it is written, Mendelson says, for participants in and offspring of the sexual revolution — those unfortunates who were not instructed by their mothers or grandmothers in how to defrost food safely or to remove water marks from varnished tabletops or to stop white pillowcases from turning yellow.

Likewise, when the colony hatched dozens of offspring, the little ones survived twice as long under the docile spiders' care; the aggressive spiders had the unfortunate tendency to mistake their progeny for food," Leah Shaffer wrote in a ScienceShot.