Example Sentences

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She fortuitously decided to come to Ipswich this weekend, as part of her travels around the UK.

From BBC • May 4, 2025

Ohtani’s shoulder procedure was fortuitously to his non-throwing arm, and isn’t expected to have any “big-picture” impact on his ability to pitch next year, according to general manager Brandon Gomes.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024

Voraphaychith also included the Lao goddess Nang Kwak in the background of the Ghost Village label — fortuitously even before, he says, he learned she is the deity of rice.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024

Indeed, in 2022 California experienced its driest January, February, and March in over 100 years, following a fortuitously wet December.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2023

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald