Example sentences for: fortunes

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

  • Typical of "second-generation" Web firms, the company was founded by Silicon Valley veterans who abandoned fortunes in unvested stock options to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • Founded in 641 and expanded by the Fatimids in the mid-ninth century, Cairo — Al-Qahira or “the City of Victory” —  became one of the most powerful Islamic cities in the world during the Medieval era, marking a rebirth in Egypt’s fortunes.

  • According to Monte Carlo folklore, it was a slide, accessible only through a trap-door, that emptied out into the Mediterranean far below: the bodies of gamblers who had taken their own lives after losing the family fortunes were dispatched through the chute into oblivion.


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