How to Use fortunate in a Sentence

fortunate

adjective
Definition of fortunatenext
Synonyms for fortunatenext
  • We should try to help others who are less fortunate than ourselves.
  • And those of us off campus are fortunate that’s the case.
    — Kara Milstein, TIME, 9 May 2024
  • All of us who were fortunate enough to know you and love you and call you friend will miss you terribly .
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 19 July 2024
  • Feel fortunate to have survived and to have gotten through it all and to be here now in Freedom.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2024
  • Like the girls were one big friend group, fortunate to lean on one another through their kind-hearted leader.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
  • But Vergara still plans to keep the tattoo thanks to a fortunate coincidence.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 31 May 2024
  • Most people have periods of remission that last for months, but there are people who are fortunate enough to go years without symptoms.
    — Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 5 June 2024
  • Less fortunate inmates resorted to using towels or tissues to absorb the blood.
    — Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
  • Add to this the implication that one is being miserly to the less fortunate if another donation isn’t made.
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
  • All who were fortunate enough to work with Treat over his four decade career would agree that his incredible talent was matched only by his utter kindness.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 17 July 2024
  • Rockmount has been fortunate to have the celebs, film-costumers and other high-profile names come to them, as opposed to Rockmount reaching out for publicity.
    — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 6 June 2024
  • At both shows, the audience seemed to be mostly middle-class Georgians, probably a few years older and a bit more fortunate than most of the protesters, who skewed younger.
    — Robert Levine, Billboard, 7 May 2024
  • His story is a grim reminder of how poisonous the business can be to those looking to make it — but Pratt can’t help but feel somewhat uncomfortable in finding herself on the more fortunate side of things, too.
    — Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
  • His generous philanthropy and valuable time regularly were aimed at everything from helping the less fortunate to medical research.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
  • Most feature writers — who aren’t fortunate enough to be operating in the big-budget IP space — have since been left to compete for dwindling streaming deals, Fay said.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
  • Once again, the Bucks are fortunate that isn’t the case.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And only a fortunate few seem to be getting the best of it.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Perhaps the most fortunate among us are those for whom the two go hand in hand.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
  • But five of her friends, two of them hostages in Gaza and three of them dead, were less fortunate.
    — Roger Cohen Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • To me, that means Jonathan was very fortunate to hook up with us as well.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • This is a fortunate aspect of the timing of the storm itself.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Athenian, a small school in Danville, also was on the fortunate side of the draw.
    — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The crowd at the exit seems to be about half-and-half ticket-holders and those who weren’t so fortunate.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The smoke, though, hangs heavy in the air, a reminder not everyone was so fortunate.
    — Tom Hallman, oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Once the Moon has changed signs, this is a fortunate financial day for you.
    — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 14 June 2024
  • The Stewarts were fortunate enough to travel throughout the world.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Harford Tech is fortunate to have a strong group of girls to train with Morgan and push her to be her best.
    — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2023
  • Some of his colleagues, on the other hand, aren’t so fortunate.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 5 July 2023
  • But fans who stayed up late to watch the practice sessions weren’t as fortunate.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Yet many of the fortunate few who receive these tents are forced to sell them for cash to pay for food, wood for cooking, and medicine.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2024

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