How to Use destiny in a Sentence

destiny

noun
  • They believed it was their destiny to be together.
  • This means your genes are not your destiny.
    — Julie Scott, Verywell Health, 15 May 2026
  • This has been our destiny, right?
    — John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Dek is now free to fulfil his own destiny.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • God truly blessed us with a love that feels like destiny.
    — Courtney Young, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
  • To destinies that cross front lines and are never the same again.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Their thinking is that a win-loss record is not destiny.
    — Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Rarely does the pending sense of doom and destiny come to fruition.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Maybe destiny does exist, and this is hers.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps change your destiny in this game.
    — EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There was no sense of destiny here, much less a moral arc or lesson.
    — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • Culture, in the long run, is destiny.
    — Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This isn’t some team-of-destiny story.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 6 June 2026
  • Cannes is a maker of destinies.
    — Norine Raja, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026
  • There’s also no rule that a team that wins games like this is a team of destiny.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Just fate, destiny, and divine plans.
    — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 1 June 2026
  • To a place where her choice and her destiny begin to overlap.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
  • To borrow a cliche, the M’s feel like the team of destiny.
    — The Athletic Mlb Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • And who could tell if his destiny was inevitable or of his own making?
    — Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
  • At least the Tigers still control their own destiny.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Be the master of your destiny and decide what’s best for you.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Don’t be upset when there’s a detour on the way to your destiny.
    — Rabbi Dovid Vigler, Sun Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2022
  • And God has a plan and destiny for the world that includes me and you!
    — The Rev. Bill Thomas, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Aug. 2020
  • This cohort was the grit of the game — the desire to own your own destiny.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024
  • Now, everybody has their own destinies and their own plans in life.
    — Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Arey is well-aware of how the game changed following his kick of destiny.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Monken then shared what seemed like destiny for himself and Sanders.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The movies before this one, their destinies were so half-hazard.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • And yet for those survivors who hold it, the belief in destiny can cut both ways.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The destiny -- as for the past two-plus decades -- is yet to be determined.
    — Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025

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