It was a fate almost too cruel to be believed.

How so many animals met a cruel fate was still unclear.

Never will I desert my people and leave them to so cruel a fate.

He had the air of a man overwhelmed by cruel fate.

What had she done to deserve so cruel a fate?

It was the cruelest fate that kept a mother from protecting her child.

Think of the cruel fates that sometimes happens to dogs.

There was an even more cruel fate awaiting the two.

But, in another poem, she wrote that slavery was a cruel fate.

Unemployment is a cruel fate for anyone, no matter where they live in Europe.