Sentence examples for opening fortune from inspiring English sources

A dark-haired woman sat alone with a drink, opening fortune cookies one at a time.

Instead, you've been opening fortune cookies or figuring out what band of the 90s best represents your soul.

I was thrilled to have done so, because to quote my author friend Anna Quindlen, "Seeing the Dalai Lama is like opening fortune cookie after fortune cookie".

New Yorker covers have reflected both sides of the holiday: Father Time is a dreamy creature perched atop a cloud in Rea Irvin's cover from 1927, but he shows his age when opening a fortune cookie in Edward Sorel's image from 1996.

After a hearty repast, the abductees open fortune cookies.

If you're a Westerner, even if the closest you've got to Asian culture is stumbling across the Great Wall on Google Earth, you know that Chinese people don't crack open fortune cookies after every meal.

Three of our faves are a unicorn saying "Boo-yah," a dolphin with a tribal tattoo taking bong hits while sitting in a ragged La-Z-Boy (such attention to detail!), and a broken-open fortune cookie in which the fortune reads "You're An Asshole".

Briefly in 1988 and 1989, and then regularly from 1992 to 1995, Mr. Kaufman wrote About New York, a twice-a-week column relating extraordinary tales of ordinary people: a crack addict transformed by the birth of a daughter, a Chinatown businessman opening a fortune-cookie factory, a gay couple celebrating 43 years together.

We opened our fortune cookies.

After the meal, they opened their fortune cookies.

Just then, Mr. Arzt opened his fortune cookie.