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

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

  • This unfortunate state of "blue balls" hinders them in their capacity to fight.  - Lisístrata
  • Just as it ends, Miss Minchin learns of Captain Crewe's unfortunate demise.  - A Little Princess
  • An unfortunate side-effect of the resurrection, however, is a severe case of diarrhea.  - Tak and the Power of Juju
  • The unfortunate series of events leave her hopelessly depressed.  - Anna Karenina (1985 film)
  • While she's getting ready to have hers taken, something similar to a tiny UFO appears and gives the picture an unfortunate angry frown.  - Incredible Crisis
  • Delio enters too late with Antonio’s eldest son, and laments the unfortunate events that have passed.  - The Duchess of Malfi
  • Ultimately, Lord Orville suggests that the unfortunate girl be named co-heiress with Evelina; kindhearted Evelina is delighted.  - Evelina
  • Further unfortunate events unfold, Stimpson and Wisely severely damage and eventually lose the car.  - Clockwise (film)
  • An unfortunate side effect of Aqua Vita is that without constant use, withdrawal results in rapid aging.  - Aqua Vita
  • Thomson and Thompson turn up from Interpol, investigating Zalamea's disappearance and have an unfortunate incident with a bull.  - Tintin and the Blue Oranges
  • Shocked to find out how an unfortunate event and misunderstanding has kept them apart, she visits the grave of Beethoven in the closing scene.  - Immortal Beloved (film)
  • Carole (Harriet Thorpe) is the unfortunate and often tearful receptionist who keeps her three children in the drawers of the reception desk.  - The Brittas Empire
  • After an unfortunate encounter with some local monkeys, the two find themselves in the camp of the local resistance movement.  - The Rundown
  • But Dorothea has also fallen in love with Ladislaw, whom she had previously seen only as her husband's unfortunate relative.  - Middlemarch
  • An unfortunate accident occurs in the subway, caused by Marshall, in which a panhandler is killed.  - A Shock to the System
  • On hearing this, Colonel Brandon offers Edward the parish on his estate, feeling sympathy for the unfortunate but honorable Edward.  - Sense and Sensibility (film)

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