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"Plight" in a Sentence (19 examples)
The documentary is meant to raise consciousness about the plight of the poor.
The old King, who was looking out of his window, beheld her in this plight, and it struck him how sweet and gentle, even beautiful, she looked.
They understood my plight.
He was not sympathetic to my plight.
She was not sympathetic to my plight.
Daphnis was in a sorry plight from the blows he had received, but seeing Chloe among the crowd, he bore his pain without complaint.
Then, audience granted, as the fane they filled, / thus calmly spake the eldest of the train, / Ilioneus: "O queen, whom Jove hath willed / to found this new-born city, here to reign, / and stubborn tribes with justice to refrain, / we, Troy's poor fugitives, implore thy grace, / storm-tost and wandering over every main: / forbid the flames our vessels to deface, / mark our afflicted plight, and spare a pious race."
Then Dido, struck with wonder at the sight / of one so great and in so strange a plight, / "O Goddess-born! what fate through dangers sore, / what force to savage coasts compels thy flight?"
So when the bold and compact band I see, / "Brave hearts", I cry, "but brave, alas! in vain; / if firm your purpose holds to follow me / who dare the worst, our present plight is plain. / Troy's guardian gods have left her; altar, fane, / all is deserted, every temple bare. / The town ye aid is burning. Forward, then, / to die and mingle in the tumult's blare."
In the 1950's, many French intellectuals were sympathetic to the plight of the Algerian people.
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Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.
Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.
Despite spending £1 billion of its own resources, that balanced budget became impossible and forced TfL to issue a 'Section 114' notice of impending financial plight and go to the government for support.
although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France[…].
All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…].
Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty
I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.
ſhe wore a plighted Garmend of divers colours,
Many a folded plight.
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