How to use plight in a sentence
27 example sentences · noun, verb
Plight means a dire or unfortunate situation. Example: “I feel for you and your plight.”
Examples of plight by meaning
nounA dire or unfortunate situation.
- 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.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 243c
- Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.2011 December 10, Arindam Rej, “Norwich 4-2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2012
- 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.2020 June 17, Philip Haigh, “Capital for the capital to meet London's transport needs”, in Rail, page 28
verbTo promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
- I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 226
More sentences with plight
- I feel for you and your plight.From the entry feel
- I doubt that Mrs Miggins on the number 32 bus cares much about the plight of the yellow woodlouse.From the entry Mrs Miggins
- In two weeks, you have given me an ability to bring order and meaning to my plight.2018, Keith Gilbert, The Door. From the entry halfhazard
- Qasimov interprets the plight of Majnun using one of the 24 different mughams specified by Hajibeyov.2009 March 1, Meline Toumani, “For the Love of Layla”, in New York Times. From the entry mugham
- Eighner was such an agreeably yackety companion that his plight sometimes felt abstract.2009 March 25, Dwight Garner, “Dispatches From the Streets: The Grim Particulars of Homelessness”, in New York Times. From the entry yackety
- My fellow biotic: You have been selected to receive this transmission because of our shared plight.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City, Calif.: BioWare/Electronic Arts, →ISBN, PC, scene: Citadel. From the entry cluster
- The twelfth century was the fist medieval century to know the sorry plight of distressed gentlefolk.2002, David Crouch, “The Household Knight”, in William Marshal: Knighthood, War and Chivalry, 1147–1219, 2nd edition, Abingdon…. From the entry gentlefolk
- He singlehandedly played good-cop-bad-cop, refusing to budge while expressing sympathy for their plight.1999, The New York Times Biographical Service. From the entry good-cop-bad-cop
- Incremental reform can move us forward and can improve the plight of the poor.1978, Welfare Reform Proposals: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Assistance of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate…. From the entry let the perfect be the enemy of the good
- The most beautiful woman in the whole world had practically plighted her troth to him.1978, James Coltrane, chapter 11, in Talon, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 48. From the entry plighter
- Here, in the desperate plight of so many of our brethren, lies a heavy charge against us.1952 September 19, Hugo Rahner, quotee, “‘Without God, Freedom Is Only A Word’”, in The Catholic Times, volume 1, number 51, Columbus…. From the entry tua culpa
- ACP Nik Ezanee closed the investigation by classifying it as no further action (NFA) after hearing about the woman's plight.2021 January 31, Farik Zolkepli, “PJ police go the extra mile to help the needy”, in The Star, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2026. From the entry NFA
- Luther speculates that Abraham, in his godly greatheartedness, must have learned of Lot's plight and taken him and his family in.2004, Carol Gilbertson, Gregg Muilenburg, Translucence: Religion, the Arts, and Imagination, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry greatheartedness
- Since the days of Dreyfus, interest in Guiana and the plight of its jungle-bound, fever-ridden convicts has never diminished.1936 September 14, “Abscess Abolished”, in Time, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2013. From the entry fever-ridden
- "Instead, the film focuses on the plight of those living in the postapocalypse and on the seemingly implacable powers that control, limit and punish them."2013, Mary K. Leigh, Kevin K. Durand, editors, Marxism and the Movies: Critical Essays on Class Struggle in the Cinema. From the entry postapocalypse
- His plight reveals a truth that's often obscured by the envy of newspaper readers; that it's not all beer and skittles in restaurant-critic land.2012 March 24, John Walsh, “The perils of reviewing restaurants”, in The Independent. From the entry beer and skittles
- The cyberbeggar creates a Web site detailing his or her financial plight in the hopes of attracting donations for his or her cause.2005, Om Prakash Goyal, Anti-social Patterns of Begging and Beggars, Gyan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry cyberbeggar
- For a narrative to be tell-worthy, it should be about the breach of a human plight, a deviation of a canonical script.2004, Jerry S. Piven, The Psychology of Death in Fantasy and History. From the entry tell-worthy
- There he wilted, obviously depending the disposal of his person and his plight on Bradly, and expecting that to be done at once, too.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65. From the entry depend
- A tenderful of frightened and annoyed passengers remained where they were for three hours, prevented from communicating their plight to passing small craft by an impenetrable GrecoAnglo language barrier.2000, John Maxtone-Graham, Liners to the Sun, page 315. From the entry tenderful
- "Fight thy foes in the field, nor be burnt in thine house."Never swear thou wrongsome oath; great and grim is the reward for the breaking of plighted troth.1910, Charles W, Epic and Saga. From the entry wrongsome
- “It’s something that should have been a conduit for creating a more respectful, empathetic marketplace.” Both co-hosts lamented the plight of small-farm growers in an era of high regulatory fees.2019 October 8, Shomik Mukherjee, “Hosts of popular cannabis podcast returning to Savage Henry festival: ‘Great Moments in Weed History’…. From the entry weedsplain
- In his first televised address since the siege in Abidjan began this week, Ouattara said he would focus on returning the country to normal to ease the plight of civilians.2011 April 8, Xan Rice, “Ivory Coast: 100 more bodies found as ethnic tensions rise”, in The Guardian. From the entry his
Meaning of plight
- noun A dire or unfortunate situation.
- noun A (neutral) condition or state.
- noun Good health.
Questions about plight in a sentence
- How do you use plight in a sentence?
- Plight is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I feel for you and your plight.”
- What is a short sentence with plight?
- “I feel for you and your plight.”
- What does plight mean?
- Plight means a dire or unfortunate situation.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: plight (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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