In a sentence
Six example sentences with adversity, each labelled with its topic.
Three injured starters and a nine game losing run was adversity the young squad had never faced together before.
Basketball
The colony met adversity in its first winter: the harvest failed, the wells froze, and the supply ship never arrived.
History
The novel follows one family through decades of adversity, from the mill closing to the flood that took their house.
Literature
Researchers found that children who met adversity with one steady adult nearby fared far better than those who faced it alone.
Psychology
Seneca wrote that adversity tests a person the way fire tests gold, revealing what was there all along.
Philosophy
Two years of adversity, with a failed launch and a lost lead investor, taught the founders to spend slowly.
Startups
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- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)
- MajorTests SAT 1000
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