Sentence examples for fortune lost from inspiring English sources
Though "Fortune" lost focus in the middle, it was the most adult dance.
His fortune lost, he committed himself to an asylum, before embarking on a comeback.
After the war, his home having burned and with his fortune lost, Hayne and his family moved to a shanty at Copse Hill near Augusta, Ga., where he earned his living writing prose and wrote some poetry.
During the financial crisis, she "made a fortune, lost a fortune, and learned valuable lessons through it all," and is now working as a lifestyle guru and living in what she describes as "a McMansion" in New Canaan, Conn.
Hundreds of thousands of holders of czarist-era Russian bonds celebrated today at recovering at least some of the fortune lost in 1917 when the Bolsheviks seized power and renounced the debt.
In what may be the world record for biggest fortune lost, the Japanese investor dropped $77 billion in two years, as the value of his Softbank holdings fell 98%.
Villa, however, failed to exploit their good fortune, losing their semi-final to Leicester as Gregory complained that his team had "choked".
Jobs have been carried away, firms felled, fortunes lost.
He was drunk-seeming, and probably a psychopath, but the story has come to serve as a parable in extremis of fortunes lost and won over the board.
Fortunes lost can be regained, some class lines can be breached, and love triumphs again and again, and then one more time.
Mark Zuckerberg is a member of the Google generation, one too young to remember all the ambitions dashed and fortunes lost when the last dot-com boom ended.
