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How to use ill-starred in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ill-starred? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
It is all there because of the Minister's ill-starred network review, which he had great enthusiasm for.
Othello's jealous rages grieved not only her, his ill-starred wife, but also all those under his command.
Ever since Atlanta's ill-starred Olympics of 1996, it has been accepted that good transport is the key to every major sporting event.
The ill-starred USS Pueblo itself has never been stricken from the Navy's roster of active ships.
Almost 5000 Allied troops died that day, and Capa, the ill-starred gambler, was fortunate not to be among the dead.
But such fierce determination to prevail will be matched by the hosts, who want to sign off the ill-starred campaign with a flourish.
Snow can also be heard giving directions to his ill-starred actors.
From memory, the ill-starred City Life also began with someone being dispatched by a road accident, in which core characters connected to him were involved.
He has only met the man once, shortly after his ill-starred period at Spurs came to an end.
They are as hungry, poorly educated and diseased as the ill-starred people of Darfur.
No industrial investment in Sweden has been so ill-starred, cost so much and resulted in so little.
Halting images of the ill-starred striker writhing in pain were shown all around the globe.
During his ultimately ill-starred tenure in Manchester, Brandon's only achievement of note was taking Britain's best-supported side to the play-off semi-finals.
Most of his cabinet colleagues spoke to him before he left to offer sympathy, including many whom he criticised in remarks made public in the ill-starred biography.
The company's technology foray has been similarly ill-starred.
There have been other ill-starred recommendations.
When she returned to Britain, her follow-up project, Early Doors, a sitcom about a Manchester pub and its family of barflies, was also ill-starred.
One exception was the ill-starred Apollo 13 mission.
Examples from Classical Literature
Pique, very likely, had brought about this ill-starred match with Chatelet.
His career seems to have been ill-starred and unfortunate from the beginning.
When I returned from that ill-starred Russian voyage, I flew at once to join you.
The Corsican expedition was quite as ill-starred as the French.
George Godolphin knew that he alluded to the ill-starred Nick.
She had no clear ideas, no logic from the other ill-starred home.
Nothing more was said of the affair, nor of the ill-starred Maria Clara.
The less said about this splendid but ill-starred effort the better.
One was the ill-starred lady who perished in the Konak in Belgrade.
How I execrated that ill-starred jade, and the Dutch skiver, but for whom I might at this moment have been my own master.
He made a point of taking his constitutional during the hour made hideous by the ill-starred aspirant on the ophicleide.
The prize crew soon had the vessel under proper sail once more and the living members of the ill-starred company carried below to their hammocks.
Snagsby and proceeds to make that ill-starred stationer, already sufficiently confused, the immediate recipient of his discourse.
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