FORTUNE in a Sentence

Learn FORTUNE 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 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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FORTUNE
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
2  For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
3  It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
4  We might have made a match of it, Sir Spaniel, had fortune favoured.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
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.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  As he spoke thus, an unexpected incident changed the fortune of the day.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
11  He was a young Irishman who had already made a large fortune by his plays in America.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
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.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
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.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
14  But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
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.