Sentence examples for fortunes filling from inspiring English sources

We spend fortunes building it, then spend more fortunes filling it, the fashionable filler of the moment being art.

With control of Congress and the future of President Vicente Fox hanging in the balance, the warring parties are spending fortunes, filling the airwaves and the streets with messages of hope, progress and political salvation.

And so nearly 200 real estate brokers, looking to increase their skills and improve their fortunes, filled a small auditorium in the basement of the Scandinavia House on Park Avenue 10 days ago to hear a panel of their colleagues reveal the secrets of "Gearing Up for the Bonus Season".

Upon graduation, he joined an elegant uhlan regiment of the Imperial Guard, but with his father's fortune filling his sails, he soon embarked on a career of social butterfly, aesthete, collector, cultural impresario and diplomat.

The entire data set would have cost a fortune, filled 1400 boxes, and been impossible to use.

Last week the Lollapalooza festival teased fans by slowly revealing this summer's lineup "Wheel of Fortune -style, Fortune -style name ofillingband, one letter at a tine.

There is a deep cistern there which they had drained but the hole was still there - the contractor said it would cost a fortune to fill it in.

But they are also old and less inclined to spend a fortune to fill holes in their lineup and no less an authority than The New York Times's Tyler Kepner is picking them to finish dead last in the American League East.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is well known for tapping his own fortune to fill in gaps in the city's resources, whether spending millions of dollars to renovate Gracie Mansion or keeping the kitchen in the City Hall bullpen stocked with healthy snacks for his staff.

If you're using farmers market fruit, it costs a fortune to fill that thing.

As a teenager, he moved to Aden to seek his fortune, working as a filling station attendant and a clerk with an oil company.