Sentence examples for fateful punishment from inspiring English sources

He knew that he would never have been made Secretary of War or Ambassador to Great Britain without the Lincoln name, and his weird accidental presence at the assassinations of Garfield and McKinley, in 1881 and 1901, must have seemed a fateful punishment for refusing his father's invitation to Ford's Theatre on April 14 , 1865

The vast financial punishment is made up of fines, liabilities and other payments resulting from that one fateful day when a well blowout killed 11 workers and caused the biggest environmental disaster in US history.

Fateful, even?

Fateful decision.

Those were fateful words.

The decision proved fateful.

When I sent that fateful tweet".

The fateful call.

The timing was fateful.

The meeting was fateful.

It was a fateful trip.