Words similar to fortunes

Example sentences for: fortunes

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

The tried and true formula for an 800 word review is to meander on the general topic for three paragraphs, summarize the book in four more, note a flaw in the penultimate paragraph, and close with an upbeat summation on the order of "Still, Moon Over Nova Scotia is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the shifting fortunes of the Atlantic eel fishing industry."
The end of the Philadelphia Declaration resonates with another invocation of a higher power: “with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
The NYT lead reports that American households have more of their fortunes invested in the stock market than at any time in the last 50 years, and maybe ever.
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.
There’s little evidence left of the bad old days of Prohibition when merchants and rum-runners here made fortunes smuggling liquor into the United States.