dilemma

In a sentence

Six example sentences with dilemma, each labelled with its topic.

• The mayor faced a dilemma: close the only bridge for repairs, or leave a span the engineers called unsafe.

  Politics

• Every founder eventually meets the dilemma of firing a loyal early employee or watching a whole department lose momentum.

  Business

• The script gives its hero a genuine dilemma, since saving the village means losing the only map home.

  Movies

• Central banks face a dilemma when prices and unemployment rise together, since raising rates fights one and worsens the other.

  Economics

• With four seconds left the defender faced a dilemma: foul a good shooter, or give up the easy layup.

  Basketball

• The classic dilemma asks whether to break a promise or tell a lie, when keeping either duty means violating the other.

  Philosophy

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More Academic words

• dominant
• assess
• compensation
• assured
• adequate
• assert
• norm
• transition
• perceive
• orient
• integrating
• procedure