Example sentences for: fortune

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

  • What Cookie's Fortune suggests is that for Altman order in the universe can't be discerned in the comings and goings of lone heroes but in the interactions among vast and disparate collections of people.

  • It's not as groundbreaking as 1994's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain , but it's close: "[T]he music is leaner and cleaner, with lunatic word play that remains an advanced course in pretzel logic" (Chris Nashawaty, Fortune ). The album "redefines the band's stellar status" (Colin Berry, the San Francisco Chronicle ), and vocalist-guitarist Stephen Malkmus delivers not just the expected musical power-punch but dead-on lyrics as well: It's "his most direct statement of purpose ever (in short: Things hurt, and growing up is hard, but kissing helps)" (Joe Levy, Rolling Stone ). (Click here to listen.)

  • If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.

  • Locals are always on hand, burning incense and praying for good fortune.

  • A Brit who made his fortune with glossy commercials, Kaye was apparently unsatisfied with the cut of the picture he turned in, and at last report was holed up in the Chateau Marmont issuing proclamations of the film's inadequacy.


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