Example sentences for: serendipity

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

  • But I was drawn to the argument of Space Between Words for two reasons: First, it treats words as physical objects produced by physical means and designed to be understood by physical beings; and second, it reminds us of the breathtaking role serendipity can play in matters of language.

  • A well known literatonym is serendipity, often used imprecisely to mean anything found by good luck, but precisely meaning something good that is unexpectedly found while looking for something else.

  • The selection of his major discipline, which would eventually be called visual neuroscience, may have been serendipity or choice.

  • He laid down a few ground rules: The material had to have been recorded commercially, "between 1927, when electronic recording made possible accurate music reproduction, and 1932 when the Depression halted folk music sales"; otherwise, he was guided only by serendipity and his own ears.

  • Such serendipity sends one on a voyage of discovery, to see what meanings can be aptly found in other Chinese transliterated names.


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