mischance

IPA: mˈɪstʃˈæns

(transitive, intransitive) To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).

Examples of "mischance" in Sentences

Debts are mischances, and I am in mischance with you.
As mischance would have it, Michael did not reach the ground.
Four had perished by mischance in the bleak, uncharted vastness.
Her mischance lay in that she bumped her head, and, before she could recover way, Forrest had circled the piano and cornered her under it.
Can't possibly be Satan, you think He has time for facilitating the tiny sin of being tempted to blaspheme by the mischance of a wayward round?
They encounter a ship in a lonely solar system, but through a freak mischance, are bonded to the other ship on a path towards the system's star.
It will be recalled that the Army, through unpredictable mischance, which is a euphemism for French defection, had lost all its equipment-tanks, guns, transport, and even rifles had gone.
Edwin Bentham was a boy, thrust by mischance into a man's body, -- a boy who could complacently pluck a butterfly, wing from wing, or cower in abject terror before a lean, nervy fellow, not half his size.