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• But the club’s predicament owes more to the topsy-turviness of Russian soccer than to some historic hoodoo.2016 February 11, Sean Williams, “The downfall of a Russian soccer team”, in The New Yorker. From the entry topsy-turviness
• Gordon Brown's predicament is an action replay of the last days of John Major, and then some.2009 May 15, “I've shared in the hell of the No 10 bunker”, in London Evening Standard. From the entry action replay
• After Grace had left, Bessy began to ponder about her mayonnaiseless predicament.2009 October 8, Nathan Miller, chapter 9, in The Official Librarian: Bessy’s Back!, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry mayonnaiseless
• In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish.1991, Stand Magazine, volume 33, page 56. From the entry notebookish
• India was not alone in its predicament or in its policy.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Feeding the Hungry: India's Food Crisis”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Taiwan
• The United States kept laissez-faire too long and it let us drift into a precarious predicament.1941, Blair Moody, Boom or Bust, page 317. From the entry boom or bust
• India is at the sharp end of this predicament.2022 May 8, Bill Spindle, “The World Has No Choice but to Care About India’s Heat Wave”, in The Atlantic. From the entry sharp end
• Sharing my predicament over a breakfast last week, he told me he commutes to his office every day by bike.2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times. From the entry Tour de France
• He always gets us out of predicaments like this.1999, Robert Forrest Burgess, The Cave Divers, →ISBN, page 298. From the entry get out of Dodge
• The acceptance of Arab conquest served as a means of escaping the doctrinal predicament that most Egyptians found themselves enmeshed in between monophysitism and melkitism.2015, Adeshina Afolayan, “Egypt, Arab Republic of (Ǧumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah)”, in Toyin Falola, Daniel Jean-Jacques, editors…. From the entry Melkitism
• Obama did not respond to his fatherlessness or his racial predicament with anger and rage, but as questions for investigation, conversation and synthesis.2007 December 18, David Brooks, “The Obama-Clinton Issue”, in New York Times. From the entry fatherlessness
• In the article, the context in which Edward Rastellini's incarceration and death is presented, one might think that he should be martyrized for his predicament.1978 April 15, John B. Fitzgerald, “Not Becoming Involved”, in Gay Community News, page 5. From the entry martyrize
• You further stated that homosexuality, gender reassignment, and bisexualism are only symptomatic of a deeper problem, and that predicament is regarded as your preconceived notion of sin.2020, Naimbai Njerakey, An Atheist's Letters to Heaven, page 66. From the entry bisexualism
• Covenant doggedly searches for a way out of his predicament and vows to keep moving in the hopes that, macabrely (as opposed to Micawberly) put, something will turn up.1995, William A. Senior, Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Variations on the Fantasy Tradition, Kent State University…. From the entry Micawberly
• The Spring Burials Violets growing through the asphalt mean the usual of spring's predicament: how, busy getting born, still wings and green will falter, twist, misgrow their management and die.1995, Erin Belieu, Infanta. From the entry misgrow
• The fits and starts of recent East European political history have many of their deepest roots in this inherently ambiguous predicament of the new guard of middle- and upper-level leaders.1971 December, Zygmunt Bauman, “Twenty Years After: The Crisis of Soviet-Type Systems”, in Theodore Frankel, editor, Problems of…. From the entry new guard

Meaning of predicament

1. noun A definite class, state or condition.
2. noun An unfortunate or trying position or condition.
3. noun That which is predicated; a category.

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Questions about predicament in a sentence

How do you use predicament in a sentence?

Predicament is used as a noun. For example: “Culture, for me, is the effort to provide a coherent set of answers to the existential predicaments that confront all human beings in the passage of their life.”

What is a short sentence with predicament?

“He always gets us out of predicaments like this.”

What does predicament mean?

Predicament means a definite class, state or condition.