How to Use fortuitous in a Sentence

fortuitous

adjective

• You could not have arrived at a more fortuitous time.
• His presence there was entirely fortuitous.
• On top of that, the Orange are a fortuitous opponent to draw for this scenario.
  — Alex Hickey, ajc, 21 Sep. 2017
• Just after the 10-minute mark, Arjen Robben found the back of the net in the most fortuitous way.
  — SI.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• The fine weather was fortuitous, as pictures showed Kim made the arduous trek up the mountain in dress slacks and shiny leather shoes.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• The effect on the real economy may be more sanguine, and in that sense the Fed’s timing is fortuitous.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
• Soon after, Greer has a fortuitous encounter with a famous feminist who later takes her under her wing and gives her a job as a speechwriter.
  — Time, 21 Dec. 2017
• This has been a fortuitous -- but not intentional -- result, Saban insists.
  — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• Juventus then scored a fortuitous second through Mandžukić, although the Croatian striker didn't know too much about it.
  — SI.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• In that fortuitous sequence of just over two minutes (plus 88), the highest hopes for this season might have been saved and the direction of a program might have been spared from another letdown.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• That problem stumped Jacobs-Lorena for years, until one of his team members, Sibao Wang, made a fortuitous discovery.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2017
• Her name would change again over the course of two later marriages, first to Peeples and then Peeples-Bright, a fittingly fortuitous moniker for such an irrepressibly sunny person.
  — Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
• The Padres took advantage of some fortuitous bounces in the top of the sixth.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 July 2017
• That rough night for him proved a fortuitous one for the Jazz, though.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2021
• For Healey, the choice of Hao couldn’t have been more fortuitous.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
• Just in time, the tide turned, thanks to three fortuitous events.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
• The next day, a fortuitous downpour extinguished the guns of the Nawab’s army.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• To throw down a list from the hard-line wing of the White House at the last minute is not a very fortuitous or smart thing to do.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 9 Jan. 2018
• There is a special dish, a fortuitous event and a plot twist.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
• That faith has led Thomas through a fortuitous career on the Plains.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 31 Dec. 2019
• Thanks to some fortuitous timing, golfers have to weigh in on the matter.
  — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2017
• The pairing of the two friends as colleagues proved fortuitous.
  — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Anaheim built the lead to 4-1 late in the period on a fortuitous bounce.
  — Ross McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2021
• That is just the first of several fortuitous twists of fate.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
• And the fact that that one library in all of the USA happened to be 30 minutes away was just fortuitous.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2023
• That turned out to be fortuitous because Robinson didn’t play in the first eight games of the 2020 season.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2021
• About the owners: Chuck Pine had a fortuitous sense of timing.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, Daily Southtown, 9 July 2018
• Just fortuitous timing not to give up a free ball, Heim said.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
• The fortuitous friendship is a product of chance and a wrong text number.
  — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• With luck, the garden said, the second plant might open Monday evening, in what seemed a fortuitous coincidence.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024