UNFORTUNATE in a Sentence

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Your late unfortunate husband should have taught it you; and then, perhaps, he might have been alive now.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNFORTUNATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unfortunate
 a.  not favored by fortune; resulting in ill fortune
 a.  unsuitable or regrettable
Classic Sentence: (209 in 14 pages)
1  The unfortunate creature's tongue seemed hardly to have been moistened in it before it gave a convulsive shiver in every limb, and lay as rigid and lifeless as if it had been struck by lightning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  In the general rejoicings the unfortunate affair of the banknotes was forgotten.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
3  My poor Utterson," said he, "you are unfortunate in such a client.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
4  It seemed indeed as if the sullen and malignant eye of Front-de-Boeuf possessed some portion of that supposed power over his unfortunate prisoner.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  Agitated by these thoughts, he could only bid the unfortunate Rowena be comforted, and assure her, that as yet she had no reason for the excess of despair to which she was now giving way.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  The arrest of my unfortunate brother forms no such good title to the high office of Chancellor, as thy chivalrous and courageous denial establishes in thee to the truncheon of High Marshal.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  Albert Malvoisin was overwhelmed with confusion; for the unfortunate Rebecca had been confined in a remote and secret part of the building, and every precaution used to prevent her residence there from being known.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  The unfortunate Rebecca was conducted to the black chair placed near the pile.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
9  "I have no portion in thee, cruel, hard-hearted man," said the unfortunate maiden.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
10  The only unfortunate thing was that men lagged so far behind women in the matter.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  Your late unfortunate husband should have taught it you; and then, perhaps, he might have been alive now.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  With this expression of feeling for his unfortunate friend, Master Bates sat himself on the nearest chair with an aspect of chagrin and despondency.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
13  He thought it a very degrading alliance; and Lady Russell, though with more tempered and pardonable pride, received it as a most unfortunate one.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  I can see why you did not write to me after her unfortunate return home.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
15  In consequence of this relatively advanced position, Yeobright might have been called unfortunate.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  The unfortunate animal was locked inside the house for a week.
2  If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
3  The treatment has some unfortunate side effects.
4  An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup.
5  She made a couple of unfortunate slips during the talk.
6  It is another unfortunate myth of our culture that older people are asexual.
7  I was unfortunate enough to lose my keys.
8  It was just unfortunate he phoned exactly as our guests were arriving.
9  He was unfortunate to lose in the final round.
10  She has inherited her father's large nose, which is very unfortunate.
11  Every year we have charity days to raise money for unfortunate people.
12  It's unfortunate when a father and son can't relate to each other.
13  When we entered the room, the teacher was yelling at some unfortunate student.
14  Convinced of his own talent, Sol has an unfortunate propensity to belittle the talents of others.
15  I am afraid that this unfortunate incident will have any serious repercussion.