Example Sentences

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She uses it to tap fatefully on trees and listen for the tiny movements of tasty grubs within, which she then extracts using those same Nosferatu phalanges.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

Almost fatefully, at 30, Hollywood agents came calling.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

Her mother had fatefully decided at the last minute not to go to the service because she'd been tired, she told the BBC.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2024

Meanwhile, Willow fatefully meets Abigail at a soup kitchen and is hired to cater Abigail’s fund-raiser.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2024

That was a sweet, full moment for Jean; yet even that was clouded by the something which shadowed these innocent children fatefully born in a wild place at a wild time.

From To the Last Man by Grey, Zane