Sentence examples for fortune to find from inspiring English sources

I spent the next 10 years fearing an arranged marriage before finding the courage to reject it, and the fortune to find love.

I simply didn't have the good (or ill?) fortune to find it.

I had the good fortune to find Baron François Duesberg himself at home.

It was Crumb's abiding good fortune to find an outlet for his demons.

Some photographers have the good fortune to find a mentor in their young years who both inspires and encourages them.

You don't know how to inhabit them yet, and it might cost another fortune to find out.

The New Yorker, July 25 , 1925P. 4 A philanthropist has donated a large fortune to found a library containing the largest number of theatre volumes in the world.

They would agree with John Frye, the chief executive of Frye's Electronics and a math major who used his fortune to found the mathematics institute.

(He recently spent part of his twenty-one-billion-dollar fortune to found a Science Fiction Museum in Seattle that contains, among other exhibits, the captain's chair from the set of "Star Trek").

And by making a saint of the Philadelphia heiress who became a nun and spent her fortune to found schools for American Indians and poor blacks, the pope not only honored Mother Drexel's social conscience, but also recognized the influence of American Catholics, who raise more money for the Vatican than Catholics in any other country.

Instead, he spent a smidge of the family fortune to found a company that specialized not in developing drugs, like most biotech firms, but in marketing them.