Sample Sentences for
dilemma
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    But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map.  (source)
    dilemma = problem (without a good solution)
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    The dilemma, of course, is that such people save their most important words for after, when the surrounding humans are unlucky enough to find them.  (source)
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    The omnivore's dilemma has been around a long time.  (source)
    dilemma = a situation in which a difficult choice must be made between imperfect alternatives
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    When I was born, my own parents were faced with a dilemma: how could they teach me to speak?  (source)
    dilemma = difficult problem
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    The fact that tonight was a maybe date created more dilemmas for Dan.†  (source)
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    He wasn't sure the book would help them out of their dilemma.†  (source)
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    Abandonment, guilt, betrayal: the boy in front of me would consider them banal dilemmas.†  (source)
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    Mary was not the least bit concerned about her son's new dilemma.†  (source)
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    He is wracking his mind with vast cosmological dilemmas.†  (source)
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    That night after prayer-time the six of us faced our dilemma.†  (source)
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    Mrs. Shultz is a sturdy lady who probably secretly appreciates the value of a swift kick well placed, and although she told me that it would be better if I let other people work out their own dilemmas, she definitely understood about Shelly Stalls and her hair and told me she was glad I'd had the self-control to do nothing more than restrain her.†  (source)
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    Jim, across the way, stood facing the same dilemma, in his room.†  (source)
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    A man might easily be embittered by such circumstances, but Nels made it a point not to struggle unnecessarily with life's unresolvable dilemmas.†  (source)
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