Rarely, if ever, can a ship have appeared in such an uncomfortable plight as ours to find herself free and safe within the space of an hour.
Each noble Dame will know how fit, I am in this plight in the saddle to sit.
So speeding am I, such plight I am in, That upon this earth no rest can I win.
He found the colony in a miserable plight and, yielding to the earnest entreaties of the settlers, took them on board and sailed to England.
Hearing of his daughter's plight Powhattan immediately restored some of his prisoners and demanded her surrender, but the English not being satisfied, asked for more.
And knew that the moon was in a good plight (position) for him to take his journey.
Now, for the love of Cynthia the shene, Mistrust me not thus causeles, for routhe; Sin to be trewe I have yowplight my trouthe.
So he sent him to apprise Arthur that Geraint was there wounded, and that he would not go to visit him, and that it was pitiable to see the plight that he was in.
They tried to get on to the telegraph wires to let their plight be known; but the wires were broken with the weight of the snow, so that attempt failed also.
She had tumbled into the boat anyhow, vigorously helped by the man, who had at least strong arms, even though he could not swim nor yet extricate himself from a plight into which no prudent person should have fallen.
I was with King Harold at the battle by Stamford Bridge, and in a worse plight than now; and yet on that day we conquered.
But think what a plight you would be in if he were to live!
Besides, there’s like to be a dissolution of Parliament, and then he’ll be in a worse plight than I am now.
Ruark, and said to him, 'my Chief, ere we leave these walls and join our fates, wilt thou plight thyself to me with a kiss?
So that the news of his plight aroused instant interest and sympathy, and all flocked to the window that Reddy indicated.
They were a little more subdued than usual, however, as they dressed, for there was poor Fred's empty cot and some dark red blotches on the floor to remind them of their comrade's plight and their own narrow escape.
There was the scum of the gutters; and there were men of intellect and high breeding, arming their hearts to resist shame and despair, and bending to soften the plight of children of misery below them.
I do not ridicule or belittle the efforts of generous and genial men and women who give their spare time, or their whole time, to bettering the plight of convicts.
He knew she told the truth, knew how gladly she would have continued riding, knew what a plight of collapse she must be approaching to submit to a thought of remaining here till morning.
She might yet escape the compromising plight into which she had been thrust.
You can't be surprised, Cox, that the brave fellows, whose plighthas been rendered more desperate by what you and your companions did, should be averse to making friendly with you.
General Herkimer was in no better plight than those who were the most exposed.
With none of them, nor yet with Hilary, was there anything to argue; their plight seemed to her hopeless.
But the plight was complex and suddenly her exultation changed to affright.
Only rarely, very gently, and therefore with a twofold pathos, did she complain of her fate; but her grief on my account was wild and passionate; she had heard of my plight but not through me.
I do solemnlyplight you my troth, in the very teeth of the man whose wife you are about to be.
And at the same time, representatives of Waterman in Washington were interviewing the President, and setting before him the desperate plight of the Mississippi Steel Company.
In whatever plight the girl may be, I can prove who she is, and you can have your fling at your dutiful nephew.
Were the hand of Caesar to drop upon us now you would find your safeguard in as sorry a plight as yourself.
That brief, fierce quarrel had revealed to us, as nothing else could have, into what a desperately abject plight my uncle had fallen.
This book would indeed be incomplete were I to fail to tell of the plight of the men.
But it was a great thing to feel that our plight was not forgotten.
We found him in this plight and saw the girl lying slain by his side.
What plight is this in which I see thee and what hath brought thee to such condition?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
