How to Use predicament in a Sentence

predicament

noun
  • I don't know how to get out of the predicament I'm in.
  • The governor has gotten himself into quite a predicament.
  • In a few years, the Estradas’ now 10-year-old son will be in high school and will face the same predicament as Javier.
    Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The left-hander got out of the predicament with an infield out.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2022
  • And that’s among the lucky, those privileged enough to even be in this predicament.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The teen telegraphed awareness of the predicament the caged children were in.
    Fernanda Santos, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • For about an hour, the crew signaled their predicament to the Spanish Coast Guard and tried to stay calm.
    Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • Resist the urge to find someone else to blame for your predicament.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
  • How did the party, and the rest of us, get into this predicament anyway?
    Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The government long sought to avoid such a predicament.
    Rick Noack, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • This produced a run on SVB and fears that other lenders across the country are in the same predicament.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Blakey’s predicament was made all the more dire by the fact that his iPhone only had 3% battery left.
    Yoni Heisler, BGR, 5 Apr. 2022
  • No one said digging out of the current predicament would be easy.
    Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The current predicament means the central bank will have to make hard choices.
    Don Lee Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Relief from a state appeals court would be the least painful way out of Trump’s predicament, the people said.
    Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a cruel irony to the predicament of Craig Underwood, who’s now 81, and David Tran, 78.
    Indrani Sen, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • But, given their predicament — they are lashed to a wall by their wrists and ankles — the song comes out as more of a cry than a croon.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Aug. 2023
  • That alone puts me in a predicament of not knowing what is going to be the quality of life of my child.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The predicament offers a glimpse of what happens when a fashion line meets a sudden end.
    Julian Mark, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
  • This week’s meltdown is not the first time the company has found itself in this predicament.
    Matt Stiles, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Law enforcement learned of the dog's predicament and removed the pet from her former home.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 6 June 2023
  • Millions find themselves in this predicament, left to settle for a dead-end job or worse.
    Rick Wartzman, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The speaker's midterm pitch comes as her party faces a predicament with voters.
    Rick Klein, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • In some ways, its current predicament may be a function of its past success.
    Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2023
  • Indeed, the strides made against this bias in many ways can explain today’s predicament.
    Steven C. Schlozman, STAT, 24 May 2022
  • The United States has many advantages, but that predicament could arise here one day.
    New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Those take awhile to unspool too, as does the full predicament facing his latest client, Sarah Grant (Lily James).
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2024
  • At the core of the student loan system predicament is the disparity between the size of the challenge and the resources available.
    Arit John, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • But first, the two men must bond over their mutual predicament: Neither can escape their world of secrets and lies.
    Sarene Leeds, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Rose’s predicament—a single mother refusing to live by the rules—is universal, regardless of race, and a reason to do the show, in 2024 or ever.
    Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2024

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