Sentence Examples

1. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr.
2. Fogg was perfectly tranquil and yet his whole fortune was at this moment at stake.
3. There would be time for the warrant to arrive, and fortune at last favoured the representative of the law.
4. You are a gifted writer and I know that fortune will shine upon you and your work.
5. For two years, he made another fortune until the feds caught him for mail fraud.
6. Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had traversed three quarters of the globe, so as to gain the American continent more surely and there, after throwing the police off his track, he would quietly enjoy himself with the fortune stolen from the bank.
7. The Muscatine, Iowa, native made a fortune in the 1920s broadcasting ads for his mail order products, claiming his natural remedies would cure what ailed people as opposed to what he considered the corrupt American Medical Association.
8. He certainly did not bet to win, and had only staked the twenty thousand pounds, half of his fortune, because he foresaw that he might have to expend the other half to carry out this difficult, not to say unattainable, project.
9. Richard had little else he could use to change his fortune.
10. This noble lord, who was fastened to his chair, would have given his fortune to be able to make the tour of the world, if it took ten years and he bet five thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg.