How to use "misfortune" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "misfortune" in popular movie and book plots

  • The couple live happily for a while until misfortune occurs.  - Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story
  • The victims of Earth’s misfortune have been forced to subsist on scavenged refuse from the past on the mangled streets of forlorn city-states.  - Phantom 2040
  • I am reluctant to believe that misfortune has really struck down such a great man.  - Trail of the Pink Panther
  • Dr Ram now realises that his past misfortune was a result of the evil motives of some antagonists of the nation.  - Mrityudata
  • Jiro seeks out Oyaruru, and learns she is his biological mother, and of the misfortune Tenkai had wrought on her family.  - The Dagger of Kamui
  • Smike, on a London street, has the misfortune to run into Squeers, who kidnaps him.  - Nicholas Nickleby
  • During that time misfortune begins to befall Kiều.  - The Tale of Kieu
  • The secret message informed the recipient of every fortune and misfortune lived by the Buendía Family generations.  - One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Snicket explains that very few positive things happen to the children, but much misfortune befalls them.  - A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • On Christmas Eve, driven to prostitution, Lulu has the misfortune of picking a remorseful Jack the Ripper (Gustav Diessl) as her first client.  - Pandora's Box (1929 film)
  • Throughout the book, she delights in the misfortune of others and constantly manipulates events to bring down calamity on Ammu and the twins.  - The God of Small Things
  • When the family settle in France, by great misfortune their immediate neighbour is the former Mme Beroldy, who blackmails him.  - The Murder on the Links
  • This misfortune was due to Marina contracting German measles in the early stages of her pregnancy.  - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
  • Nothing is known for certain about the sword, except for one thing: it brings misfortune to those seeking it.  - Soul Edge
  • Then in the ruins of Satis House he meets the widowed Estella, who asks Pip to forgive her, assuring him that misfortune has opened her heart.  - Great Expectations
  • In 1957 he goes to jail where he pounds the walls, sorrowfully questioning his misfortune and crying in despair.  - Raging Bull

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