How to Use fateful in a Sentence

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• Her campaign took a fateful turn.
• Hundreds perished on that fateful day.
• His life changed on that fateful November evening.
• At worst, this could be the start of a fateful tailspin.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• Yet in that fateful 26-game stretch, the Mets were outscored by just 11 runs.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
• This is about the non-yield since the Sox went out of their way to lock him up in that fateful spring.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• This morning, Christopher stood at the end of the board, took a breath and made the fateful hop.
  — New York Times, 4 July 2022
• Then, a few months later, a fateful storm hit the city.
  — Megha McSwain, Chron, 8 Aug. 2022
• Then came that fateful meeting with Gaye at the Hoover Street Gym in 1978.
  — Matthew Allan, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
• Yet there was one more fateful roll of the many-sided die.
  — Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
• Biden showed up to a fateful debate and so should Trump.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
• The fateful loss last season occurred on May 15, almost a year to the day of this one.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• Then one fateful night in August, Ernestine and I are about to go to bed.
  — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• That was where Zahawi stayed, until the fateful events of the 2022 summer.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Most of the high points of the Nagy era came before Parkey’s fateful kick nailed the upright and then bounced off the crossbar.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2024
• Having landed in London, the ladies hear that fateful knock on the door.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023
• But when two friends sat down for a fateful meal in Tokyo, a big idea hit like a hearty dollop of wasabi.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• That means some heads are going to roll at the fateful senior prom.
  — Steven Thrash, EW.com, 27 Oct. 2022
• Rod isn't there for the band's fateful first meeting with Teddy.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Mar. 2023
• Since that fateful day, the Packers have gone 48-14 against Chicago.
  — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• What kind of a life would someone lead that would lead them to make that fateful choice, and bring you on that journey?
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2024
• The world watched – and mourned – as wildfires destroyed the town of Lahaina, Maui back on that fateful day of August 8.
  — Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• On the fateful play, Smith-Schuster ran a double move — cut inside, then to a wheel route on the outside.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• Now, the jacket that Jordan wore to accept his gold medal on that fateful day could be yours.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 11 May 2023
• Her fortunes soon changed after a fateful run-in with the Wayans brothers at her day job.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• The allure of a 3-pointer can prove friendly or fateful.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2023
• In the wake of that fateful night, the United States Army convicted 110 of the soldiers of murder, mutiny and other crimes.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• The feature explores the friendship between a dog and a robot — called Dog and Robot — who take a fateful trip to the beach.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2023
• That sense that there was a message that Rodriguez had to share never went away, though, not until one fateful day in the studio at the end of 2019.
  — James Factora, Them, 30 Sep. 2024
• The two reportedly talked about their memories of that fateful day and bonded over their respective stints in the military.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024