How to Use fortuitous in a Sentence

fortuitous

adjective
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  • You could not have arrived at a more fortuitous time.
  • His presence there was entirely fortuitous.
  • The Padres took advantage of some fortuitous bounces in the top of the sixth.
    — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 July 2017
  • The pairing of the two friends as colleagues proved fortuitous.
    — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • That is just the first of several fortuitous twists of fate.
    — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
  • That rough night for him proved a fortuitous one for the Jazz, though.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • There is a special dish, a fortuitous event and a plot twist.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Thanks to some fortuitous timing, golfers have to weigh in on the matter.
    — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The fortuitous friendship is a product of chance and a wrong text number.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Her second dress for the party was the result of a fortuitous meeting.
    — Belathée, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Those wheels were greased in part by fortuitous timing.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
  • If the timing is fortuitous, the promise of those young players is not.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2021
  • For Healey, the choice of Hao couldn’t have been more fortuitous.
    — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
  • That turned out to be fortuitous as their bakery sales have been heating up for months.
    — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 22 Nov. 2020
  • That faith has led Thomas through a fortuitous career on the Plains.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Walmsley cashed the go-ahead triple with a fortuitous bounce.
    — Matt Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The next day, a fortuitous downpour extinguished the guns of the Nawab’s army.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Short of a fortuitous gust of wind, the only way to pull it off is by putting an ample serving of spin on the ball.
    — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 15 June 2018
  • This fortuitous happenstance is the best evidence of plumes to date, the study said.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 May 2018
  • Just fortuitous timing not to give up a free ball, Heim said.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • At first, that had seemed like a fortuitous gift from one of the few nations with an abundance of vaccines.
    — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The Oilers got that goal back with a somewhat fortuitous bounce on a strong shift from their top line.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Those moments led to some of the most fortuitous discoveries of my life.
    — Jenna Lyons, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2017
  • All of the models wore flat rubber boots or combat shoes, which turned out to be fortuitous.
    — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 26 May 2018
  • Their timing was fortuitous, as the mortgage market was about to take off.
    — Patrick Oster, Fortune, 17 July 2023
  • Whether that timing was fortuitous or not is yet to be determined.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Pescador says this donation comes at a fortuitous time.
    — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2022
  • About the owners: Chuck Pine had a fortuitous sense of timing.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, Daily Southtown, 9 July 2018
  • That Delta Kream and its short run even happened was fortuitous.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 2 June 2022
  • The Polos couldn’t have foreseen how fortuitous her name would be.
    — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2018

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