Sentence examples for fortune happened from inspiring English sources

Wonton's primacy in the industry and, for that matter, in the gambler's imagination is such that when, in March, five of six lucky numbers printed on a fortune happened to coincide with the winning picks for the Powerball lottery, a hundred and ten people, instead of the usual handful, came forward to claim prizes of around a hundred thousand dollars.

One could easily be deluded into thinking that remarkable changes of fortune happened, or that class barriers were no obstacle to love, or that happily-ever-after was a real-life thing.

How did such a reversal of fortune happen?

"This is boom time," said Henry S. Miller, a leading restructuring guru, unabashed by the paradox that his good fortune happens because of the misfortune of others.

Seeing this type of fame and fortune happen so frequently and so "easily" can distort our perspectives on what it takes to build a profitable and sustainable business in the first place.

Astonishing reversals of fortune happen every minute.

At the trial, held in mid-June, character witnesses testified that Dixon was "a harmless, inoffensive man, but destitute of business capacity" and "in reply to the question whether Dixon was non compos mentis, I consider him as being on the frontier line sometimes on one side, and sometimes on the other, just as the breeze of fortune happens to blow".

This piece is an attempt to explain frankly how this dramatic turnaround in political fortunes happened and where Labour might go next.

Had Riposte's fortunes happened to turn on some apparently random consideration – luck in running, say, or the nod in a photo finish – fate would surely have been shamed into some miniature gesture of remorse for the cruel abbreviation of his life.

With good fortune that happened".

This sudden reversal of fortune has happened before for the Titans -- last week, to be precise.