Example sentences for: fortunate

How can you use “fortunate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's fortunate she is not his sole source of energy--the Star reports she had canceled their wedding plans three times previously.

  • Everybody knows that the best universities, law firms, hospitals, investment banks, and the State Department used to be run by preppies whose main virtue was fortunate birth, and are now open to one and all on the basis of merit.

  • Reread your life story in A Christmas Carol . If you have no problem more serious than boredom with an excess of Christmas, you are fortunate indeed.

  • With scads of women monopolized by the well-to-do, less fortunate men could get mighty lonely and become very unhappy campers.

  • Although the riverbed here is almost perpetually dry, the town is fortunate to have a high water table.


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