We found 13 examples of how to use plight in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 13 of 13.
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| 1. | The documentary is meant to raise consciousness about the plight of the poor. | |
| 2. | The old King, who was looking out of his window, beheld her in this plight, and it struck him how sweet and gentle, even beautiful, she looked. | |
| 3. | They understood my plight. | |
| 4. | He was not sympathetic to my plight. | |
| 5. | She was not sympathetic to my plight. | |
| 6. | Daphnis was in a sorry plight from the blows he had received, but seeing Chloe among the crowd, he bore his pain without complaint. | |
| 7. | Then, audience granted, as the fane they filled, / thus calmly spake the eldest of the train, / Ilioneus: "O queen, whom Jove hath willed / to found this new-born city, here to reign, / and stubborn tribes with justice to refrain, / we, Troy's poor fugitives, implore thy grace, / storm-tost and wandering over every main: / forbid the flames our vessels to deface, / mark our afflicted plight, and spare a pious race." | |
| 8. | Then Dido, struck with wonder at the sight / of one so great and in so strange a plight, / "O Goddess-born! what fate through dangers sore, / what force to savage coasts compels thy flight?" | |
| 9. | So when the bold and compact band I see, / "Brave hearts", I cry, "but brave, alas! in vain; / if firm your purpose holds to follow me / who dare the worst, our present plight is plain. / Troy's guardian gods have left her; altar, fane, / all is deserted, every temple bare. / The town ye aid is burning. Forward, then, / to die and mingle in the tumult's blare." | |
| 10. | In the 1950's, many French intellectuals were sympathetic to the plight of the Algerian people. | |
| 11. | Visual artist Ricardo Santos Hernandez uses art as a form of activism to raise awareness about the plight of Central American and Mexican migrants and U.S. immigration policy. | |
| 12. | They don't necessarily identify with the plight of Latin American immigrants today. | |
| 13. | I neither live in Australia nor in North America to talk about oppressed minorities there. I live in a Muslim country and I'm much closer to the Palestinians than I am to African Americans or the Aborigine. That's why I talk about the Palestinians and no one has the right to dictate on me what I should be talking or writing about. Even if I were African American or an Australian Aborigene, I'd write about the plight of the Palestinians. |