adversity
Example Sentences
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Most adversity comes from playing away from home, and Saturday gave the England players more of those scenarios.
From BBC
Its premise could have offered up a kid-friendly reading on failure that doesn’t simplify a way out of adversity.
From Los Angeles Times
He faced adversity at the end of the regular season when his team lost three out of four games, so let’s see how he responds in the Open Division playoffs.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead of demonstrating how people overcome adversity, we sit in adversity.
He tried to set his expression into “bravery in the grip of terrible adversity” but it was difficult with the wind contorting his face as if he were in a free fall without a parachute.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
