6 sentences with 'fortune'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fortune and other words derived from it.
• « His strength and good fortune never ceased to amaze us and, above all, we were glad to have him back with us. »
• « Finally, the eastern Roman Empire enjoyed a stroke of good fortune in the threats it faced from outside the frontiers: the barbarians went west and Persia did not launch major invasions. »
• « The whole affair was paid for by Cosimo out of his personal fortune - he even paid the travel expenses of visiting dignitaries from as far afield as India and Ethiopia. »
• « Enterprising merchants who managed to position themselves somewhere along the Indian Ocean trade routes or the famous Silk Road between Europe and China could make a fortune, but the distances involved were so vast that it was very difficult and dangerous to engage in mercantile ventures. »
• « Ruperto was in the waiting room of an airport, and he saw a computerized scale there that gave the weight and revealed the fortune. He decided to take the test, put a coin in the slot and read on the screen: "You weigh 88 kilos, you are married and you are about to travel to San Diego". Ruperto was stunned. »