How to Use fortunate in a Sentence

fortunate

adjective
  • How fortunate we were to find that restaurant!
  • We should try to help others who are less fortunate than ourselves.
  • The Broncos have been fortunate that the defense has been one of the best in the league.
    Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Displaced humans without a home or even a town to put it in, calling themselves the fortunate ones.
    Michael Graff, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Once again, the Bucks are fortunate that isn’t the case.
    Brian Sampson, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Browns were fortunate to be down only 13-10 at the half.
    cleveland, 23 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • And those of us off campus are fortunate that’s the case.
    Kara Milstein, TIME, 9 May 2024
  • To me, that means Jonathan was very fortunate to hook up with us as well.
    Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Eleven-year-old Aafreen from Haslam Park school, was one of the fortunate children to meet the King.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 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
  • And Sauron is just fortunate enough to be in the position to provide it.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • By the final minute of the second, the Bruins were fortunate still to be down by only one goal.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Three pairs of fortunate souls can book their stay via Booking.com when the offer launches on June 7.
    Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2023
  • Dear Amy: My wife and I were fortunate enough to get married in Tuscany two years ago.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
  • Arizona is fortunate to have you as a resident of the great state.
    Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Anyone in some sections was fortunate to have a slice of bread.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023

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