Sentence examples for unfortunate place from inspiring English sources

We're in an unfortunate place, but we needn't travel back there to describe it.

"We have come to an unfortunate place as a country," she told me.

For the ditch-digging enthusiast, however, there isn't a more unfortunate place to work than the Catskills.

Along with other Southeast Asian countries, Thailand — in spite of a development boom in recent decades — has been one such unfortunate place.

The language obscures the stories of people who may be teachers, traders, clerical workers, their lives thrown into conflict, who, after battling across the continent to find a better life, find themselves in this unfortunate place.

The most simplistic, least charitable interpretation is that "Iraq" is shorthand for any unfortunate place, like Beirut was in the eighties, or Sarajevo in the nineties — a dismissive way of invoking another country, and a dissociative way of talking about one's own.

He has been trying for two months.As refugees flee wars in Syria, Eritrea and other unfortunate places, the number trying to smuggle themselves into Britain seems to be rising.

There are too many people stuck in unfortunate places.

In the multi-channel case this can arise even in free field simply because of an unfortunate placing of sensors and actuators.

"The advantage of this unfortunate situation is, the Republicans have no place to place blame," she said.

Anne's husband was placed in an unfortunate position when Anne forced him to vote for the bill, even though, being a Lutheran, he was an occasional conformist himself.