Sample sentences for ADVERSITY

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Definition

an unfortunate state or event

a period marked by adversities
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity...
George Washington
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
Socrates
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,
William Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors

adversity = hardship (an unfortunate state)

I am accustomed to adversity.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- From Twice Told Tales
There was one man there who had fallen on adversity, and to him she had given board and lodging for several months.
Maugham, W. Somerset -- Moon and Sixpence
...her courage rose to support her in her adversity.
Shelley, Mary -- Frankenstein
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Chilo
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Lois McMaster Bujold -- A Civil Campaign
Had the hour of adversity come?
Verne, Jules -- Around The World In Eighty Days
Sharers of Wilfred's dangers and adversity, they remained, as they had a right to expect, the partakers of his more prosperous career.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
But Mom acted like her normal self—nonchalant in the face of adversity.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
It is from the Bible, too—the Tenth Psalm: 'He hath said in his heart, I shall not he moved, for I shall never be in adversity.'
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy

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