Example Sentences

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But while Mother Russia’s not involved, you can almost hear her fatalistically moaning, “Just don’t bother!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

At one of many smog summits — this one convened by a county supervisor in 1949 — a weather forecaster named Irving P. Krick came down squarely, and rather fatalistically, on the side of industry.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2023

If you want to have a child, then when the time comes that you feel ready to do so, I urge you to act hopefully, not fatalistically or fearfully.

From Slate • Jan. 19, 2020

St. Placidus was rolling fatalistically amid the blue waves of his pond, while one of his comrades, endowed with special powers by St. Benedict, came walking across the water to save him.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

Cheesethief sprang into action, surprised that Scragg still lived but fatalistically accepting that nothing could kill Cluny.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques