How to Use fortuitous in a Sentence

fortuitous

adjective

• You could not have arrived at a more fortuitous time.
• His presence there was entirely fortuitous.
• To achieve a fortuitous mix of fast growth and low inflation and interest rates, the economy would...
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 23 May 2017
• Elvis Andrus hit a one-out single and made a fortuitous read on Lucroy’s bloop hit that followed.
  — Gil Lebreton, star-telegram.com, 11 May 2017
• Of all the hosts, Meyers was perhaps the one who was able to cover the matter most thoroughly—in part thanks to the fortuitous booking.
  — Laura Bradley, VanityFair.com, 16 May 2017
• That consequential step in Kelsey's career may been due to a fortuitous error on the part of Geiling.
  — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
• One particularly fortuitous find was a Jean-Michel Frank oak-and-parchment cabinet, which now stands in the guest room.
  — Ian Phillips, ELLE Decor, 27 Apr. 2011
• In another fortuitous turn of affordable fashion brilliance, Prada is launching light, perfect-for-summer tote bags.
  — Dawn Spinner Davis, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 June 2010
• How the Sugar Grove resident wound up committing to Arkansas was fortuitous.
  — Paul Johnson, Aurora Beacon-News, 1 May 2017
• The Padres took advantage of some fortuitous bounces in the top of the sixth.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 July 2017
• That rough night for him proved a fortuitous one for the Jazz, though.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2021
• For Healey, the choice of Hao couldn’t have been more fortuitous.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
• Just in time, the tide turned, thanks to three fortuitous events.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• Just after the 10-minute mark, Arjen Robben found the back of the net in the most fortuitous way.
  — SI.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• The next day, a fortuitous downpour extinguished the guns of the Nawab’s army.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• To throw down a list from the hard-line wing of the White House at the last minute is not a very fortuitous or smart thing to do.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 9 Jan. 2018
• There is a special dish, a fortuitous event and a plot twist.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
• That faith has led Thomas through a fortuitous career on the Plains.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 31 Dec. 2019
• Thanks to some fortuitous timing, golfers have to weigh in on the matter.
  — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2017
• The pairing of the two friends as colleagues proved fortuitous.
  — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Anaheim built the lead to 4-1 late in the period on a fortuitous bounce.
  — Ross McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2021
• That is just the first of several fortuitous twists of fate.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
• And the fact that that one library in all of the USA happened to be 30 minutes away was just fortuitous.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023
• That turned out to be fortuitous because Robinson didn’t play in the first eight games of the 2020 season.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2021
• About the owners: Chuck Pine had a fortuitous sense of timing.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, Daily Southtown, 9 July 2018
• Just fortuitous timing not to give up a free ball, Heim said.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
• The fortuitous friendship is a product of chance and a wrong text number.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• Short of a fortuitous gust of wind, the only way to pull it off is by putting an ample serving of spin on the ball.
  — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 15 June 2018
• Of those four, two were motel conversions, which turned out to be a fortuitous niche.
  — Anna Scott, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
• The fortuitous appearance of a double – the depressive recluse Dom (also played by Abel) – seems to offer the perfect decoy.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024