6 example sentences using fortune.
Fortune used in a sentence
Fortune in a sentence as a noun
> You are bold and confidentThat is what it said in the fortune cookie I got the other day.
Whoever cracks that nut and becomes the Southwest of the drug industry is going to make a fortune.
Many others were cheated out of the fame and fortune they deserved by others who got the credit.
You can begrudge the first DPR his lame security, shady ****** contracts, and ill-gotten fortune, but he's the product of our system, and his shame is our shame.
At that level, and sitting on top of a multi-billion dollar fortune, it almost never behooves you to say anything negative about anybody -- least of all one of your former partners.
The youngest billionaire in Houston right now made his fortune from Enron: he was a trader of energy derivatives and after making the company some $75 million one year he was awarded about an $8M bonus.
Fortune definitions
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"
a large amount of wealth or prosperity
an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"
See also: luck
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"
See also: destiny fate luck circumstances portion