plight
Example Sentences
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Louise, 15, is “afflicted by the plight of the middle child,” in that everyone ignores her even in the best of times.
The four men who became the film’s principal subjects had been using the cellphones for several years as they fought to bring attention to their plight.
From Los Angeles Times
Told baldness is generally seen as an aesthetic problem covered out-of-pocket, Lee retorted that young people with thinning hair view their plight as a “matter of survival.”
Iranians know the source of their economic plight.
At this moment, somewhere on the internet, “Stranger Things” fans are rabidly and rapidly giving their feedback on how the series resolved the years-long plight of horrors faced by their favorite ragtag troop from Hawkins.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
