How to Use destiny in a Sentence

destiny

noun
  • They believed it was their destiny to be together.
  • This cohort was the grit of the game — the desire to own your own destiny.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024
  • Be the master of your destiny and decide what’s best for you.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Scott Snyder wants to be the captain of his own destiny.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • To a place where her choice and her destiny begin to overlap.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • Don’t be upset when there’s a detour on the way to your destiny.
    Rabbi Dovid Vigler, Sun Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2022
  • With the win, the Bengals control their own destiny again.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The Longhorns dropped out of the top 25 and no longer control their own destiny in the Big 12 Championship race.
    Dallas News, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The candidate seems to be basking in a sense of destiny.
    Time, 14 June 2023
  • For centuries, the stone of destiny, also known as the Stone of Scone was used to crown Scottish kings.
    Leila Sackur, NBC News, 6 May 2023
  • Because Emirates has so many A380s, the destiny of the plane will largely rest in its hands.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 11 July 2022
  • The whole pitiful saga does have the ring of destiny calling at last, with nothing but kind words.
    Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • An 80-year-old-and-counting judge with a strong sense of destiny will be watching.
    Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
  • This three-game series in Toronto present a chance for the Rangers to control their own destiny.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • King always said we are connected and tied to the same destiny.
    Arkansas Online, 17 Jan. 2023
  • By the end of the book, Enid Coleslaw’s destiny is unclear, but she’s equipped with all the wisdom and love her creator has to offer.
    Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The Jazz do, however, control their destiny for the No. 5 seed.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Apr. 2022
  • But Augustin landed the role through the charmed stroke of serendipity and destiny.
    Yolanda Baruch, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Learning that the door of destiny is a narrow one and not everyone can come with you.
    Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2023
  • This season, the Padres still control their own destiny.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2022
  • For decades, Gaza’s destiny had been shaped by others; now Gazans themselves were in charge.
    Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2023
  • And here’s Lenny, in a fantasy sequence, as one of the sailors, dancing out his destiny.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Buffy was, by destiny, surrounded by death and, at one point, her own death was the key to saving the universe.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Mercury need to win against the Sparks to ensure the Sparks don’t control its playoff destiny.
    Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2022
  • The Lakers can still finish with a top-six seed but do not control their destiny.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • City struck three times between the 76th and 81st minutes of the game to turn the game on its head and reclaim control of its title destiny.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 22 May 2022
  • North and south node of destiny: Fate takes a hand, pushing us to evolve or release past karma.
    Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
  • This week brings you an emotionally messy Moon and a call to destiny.
    Jennifer Culp, Them, 26 July 2024
  • The book does raise the question of how much biology is destiny.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But now the question becomes: Is that still Catherine’s destiny?
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024

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