How to Use ill-fated in a Sentence

ill-fated

adjective

• Despite the glamour of the celebration, the union of course was ill-fated.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 3 July 2026
• Jeffrey, a divorced former Army Ranger, embarks on a sudden and inevitably ill-fated life of crime to help provide for his kids.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
• Creator Chris Carter's 2008 return to The X-Files franchise was ill-fated.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026
• What the Pentagon Papers revealed is that the American government had reason to know all along that the venture was ill-fated.
  — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
• So, where will Season 2 take us, Mayor Tom Loftis, and the rest of this wonderfully funny and spectacularly ill-fated island community?
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 June 2026
• The series then retreats to 2019 to trace the circumstances that led to these killings, building toward the inevitability of Maggie and Paul’s death and filtering the whole family through a lens of catastrophe, where every member is either ill-fated or devious.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
• But this was the first of three Terence Fisher Frankenstein films to substitute the iconic Monster for an equivalent and ill-fated experiment; in this case, a paralysed hospital assistant Karl (Oscar Quitak) who agrees to have his brain transplanted into an able body (Michael Gwynn).
  — Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025