ill-fated

Example Sentences

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New York was one of 22 ports visited in 15 countries on its earlier ill-fated trip.

From Barron's

Smith's father had lost savings in an ill-fated ginseng deal, plunging the family into two decades of poverty.

From Salon

She asked a judge for authorization to hire a new special prosecutor to help land criminal convictions for Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer on the ill-fated western movie.

From Los Angeles Times

The book is about an intense friendship and an ill-fated love, and not the intense illness during which it was created.

From Salon

Yet that, too, had not yet been released during Gore's ill-fated first White House bid.

From Salon