Sentence examples for fortune right from inspiring English sources

It is going to cost a fortune, right?

"If the economy sours," Mr. Zagat said, "some of the restaurants making a fortune right now will make less money.

If such a market existed this summer, anyone who invested in the word "mull" would be sitting on a fortune right now.

There has been much discussion recently about the Coens' propensity for putting their protagonists through hell – Barton Fink, Jeff Lebowski, or A Serious Man's Larry Gopnik, who bore the slings and arrows of outrageously bad fortune right along to the sound of heads hitting blackboards and the slurping of breakfast cereal.

Wake up and smell the slow-brewed coffee, my young friend: Few waltz into that kind of fortune right out of college.

"This is good fortune, right?" said Dellacamera, sitting on a folding chair in the club suite last week as dozens of workers prepared for Saturday's induction ceremony.

I don't think I ever sat in front of the computer and said, 'I am going to write ten fortunes right now.' It has to come naturally".

If Fortune is right, he'd be rated triple-A.

There's no reason Christmas tree ornaments cannot function like fortune cookies, right?

"At the Heart" of the manifesto is a return to the policy which made Maggie's fortune: the Right to Buy.

There's all sorts of meta-cinematic devilry going on in one of the strangest blockbusters of the decade – Iron Man 3. In one scene Ben Kingsley's nemesis, the Mandarin, halts for a lecture on the authenticity, or otherwise, of the "Chinese" fortune cookie – right before laying waste to Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood: "Another cheap American knock-off".