FATE in a Sentence

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248 example sentences for FATE, such as:

1. We want to decide our own fate.
2. He abandoned his daughter to her fate.
3. The court will decide our fate / fates.
4. For every story of cold, way is our fate.
5. A strong man will struggle with storms of fate.

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 Meanings and Examples of FATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fate
 n.  the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
 n.  your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She continued to gaze at him through the twilight with a mien of wan authority, as of one consciously singled out for a great fate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Her sombre violence constrained him: she seemed the embodied instrument of fate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  Everyone knew now that the fate of the Confederacy rested as much upon the skill of the blockade boats in eluding the Yankee fleet as it did upon the soldiers at the front.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  If you will permit me, Mrs. Wilkes, I will use what influence I have in Washington to learn about Mr. Wilkes' fate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  And Scarlett was not surprised to see them, these kinsmen who had taken the worst that fate could send and hammered it into the best.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Tara was her fate, her fight, and she must conquer it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  At the sight of Ashley in rags, with an axe in his hand, her heart went out in a surge of love and of fury at fate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  Her need of money was too pressing, too desperate, for her to bother about his ultimate fate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  In her desperation to obtain the tax money, no thought save Tara and the fate which threatened it had any place in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
11  There was only one thing in the world that was a certain bulwark against any calamity which fate could bring, and that was money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  Her eyes went quickly to his but they were wide and crystal gray and they were looking through her and beyond her at some fate she could not see, could not understand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
13  So, only half resigned to her fate, she spent most of her time with Scarlett, vicariously enjoying a pregnancy not her own.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
14  Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
15  She should be desolate, broken hearted, ready to scream at fate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  Many of the papers muse on the fate of the President.
17  Even if approved, the measure faces an uncertain fate in the Democratic-controlled state Senate.
18  The Casino, where she had often danced, had suffered a similar fate.
19  By a curious twist of fate, cricket was also my favourite sport.
20  For every story of cold, way is our fate.
21  A strong man will struggle with storms of fate.
22  He abandoned his daughter to her fate.
23  A plebiscite was held to decide the fate of the country.
24  We want to decide our own fate.
25  The court will decide our fate / fates.
26  A Japanese delegation has started talks in North Korea to try to clarify the fate of at least ten Japanese citizens who were abducted by the communist state.
27  But if I go on until my beloved is my bride, and she has taken up my fate, and we are one, and the world knows no difference, what then?
28  By a quirk of fate, he found himself working for the man whom he had discharged years before.
29  For that fate you have already made your choice, and must abide by it.
30  Now the Norwegian Fisheries Minister says Norway has a national responsibility to discover the fate of one of its famous sons.