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.
• Our cars were safe inside a garage, though many of our neighbors weren’t so fortunate.
  — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024
• The last couple of years have been very fortunate for me, despite all that’s gone on in the world.
  — Martin Draluck, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
• Your children sound very fortunate to have a father as present and selfless as you.
  — cleveland, 20 June 2022
• Thanksgiving is a time when many feel compelled to help those less fortunate.
  — Anastasia Boden, National Review, 28 Nov. 2024
• While many companies could adjust to most, perhaps all, of their employees working from home, not all were so fortunate.
  — Steve Gickling, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• Though they are intended for the less fortunate, Cordova said no questions will be asked of those who partake.
  — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov. 2024
• Tis the season to give back to those less fortunate, and Los Gatos Rotary has certainly done that.
  — Debby Rice, The Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2024
• It’s been fortunate to draft several All-Stars, but also has had its fair share of draft day disappointments.
  — Joel Lorenzi, The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2022
• Though the family feels fortunate to have Medicaid and food stamps, their lack of income puts them in a dire situation.
  — Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Nov. 2024
• While many soldiers endure appalling violence without losing their mental health, others aren’t so fortunate.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• Not all cities are fortunate to have a community organization like NashvilleHealth to take the helm in acquiring these data.
  — Bill Frist, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Once again, the Bucks are fortunate that isn’t the case.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The Browns were fortunate to be down only 13-10 at the half.
  — cleveland, 23 Oct. 2022
• Lauren, who was fortunate enough to snag the shirt, wears it all the time.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 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
• At the ages of 8 and 6, my kids, Melanie and Billy, were fortunate to have a bathroom just for the two of them.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• 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
• Those who weren’t so fortunate may well have opened the door, hoping to fill the holes in their lives.
  — Hiroko Yoda, The New Yorker, 26 July 2022
• Thursday’s trip back to the ocean was not just for five fortunate fur seals.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2022
• Athenian, a small school in Danville, also was on the fortunate side of the draw.
  — Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
• Bless those who are here and those who are in our hearts, and all those who are not as fortunate on this day.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 21 July 2022
• Old bench boss Jeff Blashill should have been so fortunate.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024