Sentence examples for fortune into the from inspiring English sources

Fisher parlayed his new fortune into the Indianapolis Speedway, which he conceived as a test track for American automobile engineers.

Bezos invests roughly $1 billion of his personal fortune into the company every year.

He wanted to put his fortune into the eradication of diseases, into educational opportunity, and other causes.

I don't know if Pohlad has put any of his personal fortune into the Twins, but it is considerable.

He decisively defeated Carlos Beruff, who sank more than $8 million of his own fortune into the race.

He also outspent Mr. Lazio, pouring more than $3 million of his fortune into the race, while Mr. Lazio spent just over $2 million.

When a high school classmate mentioned the wonders of ferrate, Daly (who turned down a bid to medical school at the University of Minnesota) decided to pour part of his fortune into tackling the clean water problem.

Ten men and one woman, dressed in rubber boots and waders, prepared to cast their fortunes into the open sea.

Mr. Manigault's ancestors were Huguenots who moved to Charleston in the 17th century and shifted their fortunes into the newspaper business with the decline of rice farming.

Elsewhere, a craze for imported orchids prompts would-be connoisseurs to plough fortunes into the black market, only to be humiliated when the flowers go out of fashion and "the price drops so fast that they are now cheaper than weeds".

Several on the list, like former Brazilian billionaire Eike Battista, BlackBerry's Thorstein Heins, J.C. Penney's Ron Johnson and Sears's Eddie Lampert, ran their companies' fortunes into the ground.