Example sentences for: fortunes

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

  • Meanwhile the vast majority of ordinary Egyptians, who offer a warm welcome to tourists, put their faith in Allah for an upturn in their economic fortunes.

  • The lack of literal historical context also allows us to leave Paradise without learning about the black Western settlements that sprang up during Reconstruction, or the so-called "exodusters" who left the South to seek their fortunes on the frontier.

  • Homegrown fortunes have never impressed the establishment.

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

  • Meanwhile, in Washington, where even New York-style fortunes are rare, it seems that America Online alone (located in D.C.'s Virginia suburbs) has created a vast new social stratum of megamillionaires one has never heard of.


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