FATEFUL in a Sentence

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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of FATEFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fateful
 a.  decisive; critical; crucial
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Just at this juncture the boy felt a slow, fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  He glided up the gallery and up the stairs, and stopped in the dark, low corridor of the fateful third storey: I had followed and stood at his side.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  And now this fateful interview had come to a close.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
4  These midnight hours were fateful ones to Jurgis; in them was the beginning of his rebellion, of his outlawry and his unbelief.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  She seemed uncanny and fateful.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
6  The score against him reached the fateful sum of forty-three thousand.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIV
7  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
8  Her sombre violence constrained him: she seemed the embodied instrument of fate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  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
10  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
11  Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  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
13  Tara was her fate, her fight, and she must conquer it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  What we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.
17  Many of the papers muse on the fate of the President.
18  Even if approved, the measure faces an uncertain fate in the Democratic-controlled state Senate.
19  The Casino, where she had often danced, had suffered a similar fate.
20  By a curious twist of fate, cricket was also my favourite sport.
21  For every story of cold, way is our fate.
22  A strong man will struggle with storms of fate.
23  He abandoned his daughter to her fate.
24  A plebiscite was held to decide the fate of the country.
25  We want to decide our own fate.
26  The court will decide our fate / fates.
27  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.
28  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?
29  By a quirk of fate, he found himself working for the man whom he had discharged years before.
30  For that fate you have already made your choice, and must abide by it.