Example sentences for: fortunes

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

  • After a brief 20th-century decline, Leith’s fortunes have revived.

  • But when you consider that it took Dow Jones until 1997 to take Bethlehem Steel, a company whose industrial fortunes peaked sometime back in the 1930s, out of the index, getting Microsoft in there 13 years after it went public has to be seen as a minor success.

  • And the businessmen who have amassed vast fortunes under the Yeltsin regime are able to continue as usual and are doubtless grinning like Cheshire cats."

  • Elite Washingtonians can earn a lot-lawyers and lobbyists clear $1 million or more a year-but don't amass huge fortunes.

  • Not that long ago, in a galaxy very, very close to home, the nation's third-largest toy company tied its fortunes to the most popular film series in history.


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