306 examples of predicaments in sentences

On my side there was but little to communicate, for I did not get into scrapes nor fall in love, the two predicaments which demand sympathy and confidences.

This was a Greek philosopher, who is often cited by Simplicius in his Commentary on the Predicaments, and must not therefore be confounded with Boetius, the roman senator and philosopher.

They heard, however, that Totten had not heard of their predicament until just after chapel call.

"You need not come with me to the station, sir," said he; "but, if you wish to assist me, please send me a lawyer and then go to the Continental and tell Mr. Goldstein of my predicament.

By that time they can say the Predicaments and Creed; they have their choice of preaching or starving!

Who is there that has been bred up in the Peripatetick philosophy, who does not think the Ten Names, under which are ranked the Ten Predicaments, to be exactly conformable to the nature of things?

I therefore endeavored to ascertain the best means of reconciling in use and custom, two such glaring extremes, and I found predicaments on all sides.

She hath a passage through all the predicaments, she hath a hand in all the arts, a property in all professions, and a quality in all conditions.

Pre-Kantian dogmatism tried to separate these two predicaments.

We are kept normally in that most unprofitable of predicaments, a state of transition, and politicians measure their words and deeds by a standard of immediate and temporary expediency,an expediency not as concerning the nation, but which, if more than merely personal, is no wider than the interests of party.

Through their inexperience in the manners of the world and their heedlessness or ignorance of ceremony both young ladies are mortified by falling into embarrassing and awkward predicaments.

It has always struck me as an amusing thing that the world, and all the human beings thereon, do get themselves into such curious and painful predicaments, and then spend the rest of the time wishing they could get out.

My old-fashioned Irish gallantry had not then been worn off by age and England: besides, as a novelist who could find no publisher, I was touched by the similarity of our trades and predicaments.

[Dure.tait], and placing him in awkward predicaments.

Thirty moral (and immoral) predicaments with suggested solutions by Franklin P. Adams, Bruce Barton, Heywood Broun and Christopher Morley.

A seal in the bedroom, and other predicaments.

A seal in the bedroom, and other predicaments.

The Seal in the bedroom and other predicaments.

Thirty moral (and immoral) predicaments with suggested solutions by Franklin P. Adams, Bruce Barton, Heywood Broun and Christopher Morley.

A seal in the bedroom, and other predicaments.

A seal in the bedroom, and other predicaments.

The Seal in the bedroom and other predicaments.

MATHEMATICS The gift of pure mathematics, on the other hand, is primarily to the mind and spirit: the fact that man uses it to get himself out of his physical predicaments is more or less by the way.

He had, to use his own words, "hobnobbed with every kind of queer folk, and found myself in extremely queer predicaments."

This was a very disagreeable predicament for China.

306 examples of  predicaments  in sentences