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.
• And to be sure, the Aggies are far from alone in this predicament.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 12 Nov. 2020
• Lara Jean finds herself in quite a predicament in the third and last film.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 12 Feb. 2021
• The Bears are in a predicament Sunday against the Titans.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• 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
• And we’ve been trapped in this predicament for hundreds of years.
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
• Oh resolved to stay in touch — and to help others in the same predicament.
  — Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• Then again, the Chargers aren’t the only team in that predicament.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020
• The left-hander got out of the predicament with an infield out.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2022
• Fey lays out a number of ways to deal with this predicament.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 9 May 2025
• 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
• While not common, this isn’t the first time an MLS team has been faced with this kind of predicament.
  — Khobi Price, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Apr. 2021
• Ralph and Carson saw my predicament, turned, and roared back.
  — Robert E. Houle, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2025
• Redditors were quick to chime in with their thoughts on the pup's predicament.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The Los Angeles Lakers are in one of the strangest predicaments in the entire .
  — Matt Levine, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
• The Navy has only itself to blame for this predicament.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 10 June 2021
• 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
• That is the predicament Leicester have found themselves in for the last three seasons.
  — Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
• In fact, the predicament of Enphase Energy illustrates the risks of heavily investing in a single stock.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
• But this latest landslide win creates a predicament for the Philippines, as the mayor-elect is thousands of miles away behind bars awaiting trial on charges of crimes against humanity.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN Money, 17 May 2025