FATE in a Sentence

Learn FATE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
248 example sentences for FATE, such as:
1. How can I hide away, the whim of fate.
2. For man is man and master of his fate.
3. Each man is the architect of his own fate.
4. She showed total indifference to his fate.
5. Each of the managers suffered the same fate.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FATE
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Tara was her fate, her fight, and she must conquer it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
15  She should be desolate, broken hearted, ready to scream at fate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  The fate of the African wild dog hangs in the balance.
2  How can I hide away, the whim of fate.
3  She showed total indifference to his fate.
4  Maybe there's something fate can't touch, fate doesn't control how easily you come to peace.
5  Time is a great thing,can let fate displaced within Iraq.
6  Now that oil is scarce, the fate of the motor car is uncertain.
7  Concern is mounting over the fate of the lost expedition.
8  Meeting you was fate,and falling in love with you was out of my control.
9  Each man is the architect of his own fate.
10  Each of the managers suffered the same fate.
11  For man is man and master of his fate.
12  They decided to kill themselves rather than suffer a worse fate at the hands of their enemy.
13  Years later, by a strange quirk of fate , she found herself sitting next to him on a plane.
14  She sat outside, waiting to find out her fate.
15  What we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.