FORTUNE in a Sentence
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281 example sentences for FORTUNE, such as:
1. He inherited a big fortune from his.
2. May good fortune find you this year.
3. He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
4. He tried his fortune in another city.
5. Every man is the master of his own fortune.
2. May good fortune find you this year.
3. He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
4. He tried his fortune in another city.
5. Every man is the master of his own fortune.
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Meanings and Examples of FORTUNE
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fortune
n. a large amount of wealth or prosperity
n. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I had the good fortune to seize upon that, and everything which has occurred since then has served to confirm my original supposition, and, indeed, was the logical sequence of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2 For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune.
3 It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune.
4 We might have made a match of it, Sir Spaniel, had fortune favoured.
5 In this character, it was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance and the last good influence in the lives of down-going men.
6 He inherited a fair fortune from his uncle, but owed it all before he came into it, and spent it twice over immediately afterwards.
7 The champions a second time sprung from their stations, and closed in the centre of the lists, with the same speed, the same dexterity, the same violence, but not the same equal fortune as before.
8 As he spoke thus, an unexpected incident changed the fortune of the day.
9 I am not romantic fool enough to further the fortune, or avert the fate, of one who is likely to be a successful obstacle between me and my wishes.
10 Ivanhoe, extricating himself from his fallen horse, was soon on foot, hastening to mend his fortune with his sword; but his antagonist arose not.
11 He was a young Irishman who had already made a large fortune by his plays in America.
12 Their host was a heavy, rather coarse Scotchman who had made a good fortune in Italy before the war, and had been knighted for his ultrapatriotism during the war.
13 His wife was a thin, pale, sharp kind of person with no fortune of her own, and the misfortune of having to regulate her husband's rather sordid amorous exploits.
14 But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
15 Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse.
Example Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
1 She bagged a fabulous fortune according to the will.
2 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.
3 He tried his fortune in another city.
4 He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
5 The rich businessman gave his whole fortune to the hospital.
6 He is a good man whom fortune makes better.
7 May good fortune find you this year.
8 He inherited a big fortune from his.
9 Jim's father wanted to invest his own father's fortune in the business, which unluckily went by the board.
10 This was certainly a welcome change of fortune.
11 Everyone seems to want to get into television to claim their share of fame and fortune.
12 Every man is the master of his own fortune.
13 Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
14 Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
15 Everyone is dissatisfied with his own fortune.