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Six example sentences with predicament, each labelled with its topic.
Missing the last ferry left the cyclists in a real predicament, with no hotel and thirty kilometers of unlit road.
Travel
The script strands its hero in a predicament no clever line can solve, and the third act finally earns its tension.
Movies
Burning cash faster than the board expected, the founders faced a predicament: raise on bad terms or cut half the team.
Startups
Three fouls before halftime put the coach in a predicament: bench his best defender or risk losing him for the fourth quarter.
Basketball
The couple's predicament was a mortgage rate that had doubled while the house was worth less than they owed.
Finance
With guests arriving in an hour and the oven dead, her predicament ended in a cold platter that nobody complained about.
Cooking
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