FATEFUL in a Sentence

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248 example sentences for FATEFUL, such as:
1. She seemed uncanny and fateful.
2. How can I hide away, the whim of fate.
3. For man is man and master of his fate.
4. Each man is the architect of his own fate.
5. She showed total indifference to his fate.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FATEFUL
fateful
 a.  (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
 a.  controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  Tara was her fate, her fight, and she must conquer it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  After a tense standoff with riot police, the authorities made the fateful decision to break up the peaceful protest with force.
2  The fate of the African wild dog hangs in the balance.
3  How can I hide away, the whim of fate.
4  She showed total indifference to his fate.
5  Maybe there's something fate can't touch, fate doesn't control how easily you come to peace.
6  Time is a great thing,can let fate displaced within Iraq.
7  Now that oil is scarce, the fate of the motor car is uncertain.
8  Concern is mounting over the fate of the lost expedition.
9  Meeting you was fate,and falling in love with you was out of my control.
10  Each man is the architect of his own fate.
11  Each of the managers suffered the same fate.
12  For man is man and master of his fate.
13  They decided to kill themselves rather than suffer a worse fate at the hands of their enemy.
14  Years later, by a strange quirk of fate , she found herself sitting next to him on a plane.
15  She sat outside, waiting to find out her fate.