FATAL in a Sentence

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My mother, in despair, and scarcely less afflicted than myself, determined to absent herself for some time from so fatal a place.

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 Meanings and Examples of FATAL
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fatal
 a.  causing death; leading to failure or disaster
Classic Sentence: (163 in 11 pages)
1  My mother, in despair, and scarcely less afflicted than myself, determined to absent herself for some time from so fatal a place.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
2  He gazed incessantly beyond this world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
4  From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal sureness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
5  They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, The Medusa, which was destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Gericault with glory.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
6  Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
7  The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him equally fatal.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
8  The fatal hand had grasped him again.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
9  This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
10  They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
11  There was a Holy Alliance; Belle-Alliance, Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
12  Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of thunder, as in the melodramas.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—MASTER GORBEAU
13  He remembered that sleep in the open air on a cold night may be fatal.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
14  There are instances of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—MARIUS INDIGENT
15  From the phase of timidity, he had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO ...
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  This illness is fatal in almost all cases.
2  This standard ensures the unit is waterproof and so prevents an accidental, and potentially fatal, combination of water and electricity.
3  This acute infection of the brain is almost invariably fatal.
4  It would clearly be fatal for Europe to quarrel seriously with America.
5  Tax increases have proved fatal to the nation's business community.
6  If it is not treated correctly, the condition can prove fatal.
7  Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
8  Even moderate amounts of the drug can be fatal.
9  He has not driven since his near fatal crash earlier this year.
10  If she gets ill again it could prove fatal.
11  Her children's death is a fatal blow on her.
12  The criminal's fatal blunder led to his capture.
13  An attack by a swarm of the reddish-brown insects can cause allergic reactions which can be fatal in extremely rare cases.
14  With fatalism, he accepted the hardships that beset him.
15  Malthus was burdened by a fatalism induced by fears of population growth and resource shortages.