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 Spurs players learned of the Heat’s predicament this morning at shootaround.
  — Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Trixie’s dire predicament drives her to try to end her own life.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Toni Cranston was at the repair shop and overheard their predicament.
  — Autumn Barnes, NPR, 25 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Spade's Hunter went on to compare his predicament to President-elect Donald Trump.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
• Eastwood raised the same predicament in The 15:17 to Paris and Sully when seeming to be impartial while playing off recent incidents that inspired the scripts.
  — Armond White, National Review, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025