Examples of misadventure in a Sentence
His vacation turned into a series of misadventures.
a string of financial misadventures eventually left him broke
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Their subsequent relationship is messy and hard to define, but by the end of Licorice Pizza, there's a sense that, after a series of misadventures through L.A., both have changed for the better.
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025
The train ride to Venice offered time to reminisce on the miles of misadventures in our silver Landy, which was a ticket to freedom entwined in its paradoxical dependency on local mechanics.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2025
The show’s recently released second and, sadly, final season raises the stakes of his misadventures, taking darker turns but abandoning neither the absurd humor nor the glimpses of beauty that add dimensions to Amer’s quintessentially American, Palestinian-refugee story.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 3 Feb. 2025
Maddin shared about his initial ambition to become a writer, some of his misadventures in attempting acting and how both the death of his father — and becoming a father himself — nudged him toward a career in filmmaking.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 1 Feb. 2025
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025
The train ride to Venice offered time to reminisce on the miles of misadventures in our silver Landy, which was a ticket to freedom entwined in its paradoxical dependency on local mechanics.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2025
The show’s recently released second and, sadly, final season raises the stakes of his misadventures, taking darker turns but abandoning neither the absurd humor nor the glimpses of beauty that add dimensions to Amer’s quintessentially American, Palestinian-refugee story.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 3 Feb. 2025
Maddin shared about his initial ambition to become a writer, some of his misadventures in attempting acting and how both the death of his father — and becoming a father himself — nudged him toward a career in filmmaking.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 1 Feb. 2025
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“Misadventure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misadventure. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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misadventure
noun
mis·ad·ven·ture
ˌmis-əd-ˈven-chər 
Legal Definition
misadventure
noun
mis·ad·ven·ture
ˌmi-səd-ˈven-chər
: an accident that causes serious injury or death to a person and that does not involve negligence, wrongful purpose, or unlawful conduct
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