FORTUNATE in a Sentence

Learn FORTUNATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
281 example sentences for FORTUNATE, such as:
1. I am always less fortunate than Robert.
2. He was indeed fortunate in his friends.
3. Archie, how fortunate that you mentioned it.
4. I've been fortunate to find a career that I love.
5. She bagged a fabulous fortune according to the will.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FORTUNATE
fortunate
 a.  presaging good fortune
 a.  supremely favored
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His accounts revealed merely what the means had been; and these were such that it was fortunate for his wife and daughter that his books were examined only after his impressive funeral.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  That was fortunate, for if she could have spoken she would have cried out truths couched in Gerald's forthright words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  What they had, each shared with less fortunate friends, as they had done in more prosperous days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  Mr. and Mrs. Whiting had a room there, too, and Mrs. Bonnell was talking of moving in, if she was fortunate enough to rent her house to a Yankee officer and his family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  And she would be so kind to those who were suffering misfortune, take baskets to the poor and soup and jelly to the sick and "air" those less fortunate in her fine carriage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  "Then it is fortunate that you are no longer living under my roof," said Melanie and her words were cold.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
7  Those on top took no thought for those less fortunate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
8  Archie, how fortunate that you mentioned it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
9  She pillowed on her shoulder the head of the baby who, after killing time in the same manner as his mother, was so fortunate as to fall asleep.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  Subsequent experiences with rattlesnakes taught me that my first encounter was fortunate in circumstance.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
11  I am always less fortunate than Robert.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIV
12  This was fortunate for her, for a few minutes later the police reserves arrived.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
13  A messenger came back to say that Jurgis should wait, and so he came inside of the gate, perhaps not sorry enough that there were others less fortunate watching him with greedy eyes.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
14  After a while he would realize how hard a task it was; and then it would be fortunate that other new hands kept coming, to save him from settling down into a rut.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
15  You have missed the way, nor have I been more fortunate.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
Example Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
1  His hard-nosed business approach is combined with a very real concern for the less fortunate in society.
2  If you are too fortunate, you will not know yourself; if you are too unfortunate, nobody will know you.
3  Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
4  I've been fortunate to find a career that I love.
5  We should all consider the plight of the less fortunate.
6  The old lady's fortunate enough to have very good health.
7  He was indeed fortunate in his friends.
8  The teachers were fully occupied with packing up and making other necessary preparations for the departure of those girls who were fortunate enough to have friends and relations able and willing to remove them from the seat of contagion.
9  Left at Miss Minchin's school for girls while her father went off to war, Sarah Crewe refused to languish; instead, she hid her grief and actively befriended her less fortunate classmates.
10  I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well.
11  He found this adventitious meeting with his friend extremely fortunate.
12  Where we are fortunate is to be dependent on actual imports of oil only to a limited degree, unlike Japan and some European states.
13  Some, such as Grinnell, were fortunate enough to parlay their alumni connections into access to top venture funds such as Sequoia Capital, famed for its winning Silicon Valley investments
14  She bagged a fabulous fortune according to the will.
15  In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed.