predicament - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • people: The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of the time.

Possessives

  • character: The last word of the story is also the first word to suggest the circular pattern to the character's predicament.
  • man: The spirit of protest is that of the existential analysis of man's actual predicament.
  • family: I prefer to create a diagnostic formulation a summary of the family's predicament which includes psychosocial issues and relevant risk and resilience factors.
  • protagonist: Could these suggestions connect him as an unseen influence in the protagonist's current predicament?
  • enemy: I will not gloat over my enemies ' predicament before killing them.

Converse of object

  • understand: I hope you can understand the predicament I was in.
  • describe: And perhaps John Prescott might have sought a more precise metaphor to describe the predicaments of his Prime Minister.
  • face: Neighboring nations with bases vital to the US effort would face a terrible predicament.
  • see: So now you see the predicament of the woman in the story.
  • solve: Perhaps your study will work in helping solve that predicament.
  • address: Politically and socially, the internet, once fully developed and widely installed, could indeed offer Cameroonians many avenues to address current predicaments.

Adjective modifier

  • dire: What else can he do in his dire predicament?
  • terrible: With a reputation for charging in to help people in distress, Jo gets herself into some terrible predicaments.
  • human: This is at the root of the human predicament.
  • current: May Jesus find us a way through our current predicament.
  • similar: Visits to the internet forum Cycling Plus revealed others in a similar predicament.
  • present: Let us share a moment to reflect on our present predicament.

Modifies a noun

  • cannot: What the Auld Lichts would have done in a similar predicament I cannot even conjecture.

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