adversity

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

"We went through adversity this season, but we stayed together," Walker said.

From Barron's