Sample sentences for FORTUITOUS

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Definition

occurring by happy chance

profits were enhanced by a fortuitous drop in the cost of raw materials

When the chair called and Zulma handed me the phone, I had never been more surprised by what I took then to be the fortuitousness of drinking.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky

fortuitousness = when things happen by happy chance

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

Her presence at his side felt more unbearably fortuitous than ever.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

fortuitous = occurring by happy chance

The situation was resolved by the fortuitous appearance of the caddymaster,
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams

fortuitous = occurring by happy chance

It is odd how we of that pension, who seemed such a fortuitous collection, have been working into one another's lives.
Forster, E. M. -- A Room With A View
Our meeting is wholly fortuitous.
London, Jack -- Love of Life And Other Stories
If he followed it by mere fortuitous coincidence, it was done by an evil chance.
Dickens, Charles -- Our Mutual Friend
Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; if Mrs.
Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
The whole thing was fortuitous.
London, Jack -- Burning Daylight
Her only hope lay in waiting until darkness had fallen, unless some fortuitous circumstance should arise before.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Son Of Tarzan
In a way, their meeting the next morning was fortuitous enough, yet it had also its significance for both of them.
Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Kingdom of the Blind
Just how I was to help Perry I could scarce imagine, but I hoped that some fortuitous circumstance might solve the problem for me.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- At the Earth's Core
fortuitous encounters—strange accidents of fortune
The prologue rose to its reasonable climax: For that fortuitous girl the sweet day dawned To wed her gorgeous prince.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
Neither do I. "But I have to admit," Simon added, "coincidence or not, it turned out to be a fortuitous occurrence."
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
It is odd how we of that pension, who seemed such a fortuitous collection, have been working into one another's lives.
E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
The shipping lane boundaries were marked by numbered buoys, and the hope was to stumble across one fortuitously so as to orient oneself.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
Robert Langdon's unexpected visit to Château Villette had brought the Teacher both a fortuitous windfall and an intricate dilemma.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
If anything, deafness proved fortuitous for him, finally giving him a doctor-certified excuse for disobeying.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
Most fortuitously, Parkland Memorial Hospital is just four miles away, should Marina go into labor with the new baby while Oswald is at work.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy

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