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.
  • Was this just a fortuitous set of trades?
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Just in time, the tide turned, thanks to three fortuitous events.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
  • There is a special dish, a fortuitous event and a plot twist.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 Aug. 2019
  • That rough night for him proved a fortuitous one for the Jazz, though.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2021
  • The scoop partly came about in a fortuitous way.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The timing for such a leap is fortuitous.
    — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Just fortuitous timing not to give up a free ball, Heim said.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • That turned out to be fortuitous as their bakery sales have been heating up for months.
    — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 22 Nov. 2020
  • For Healey, the choice of Hao couldn’t have been more fortuitous.
    — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
  • 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
  • Walmsley cashed the go-ahead triple with a fortuitous bounce.
    — Matt Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The Padres took advantage of some fortuitous bounces in the top of the sixth.
    — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 July 2017
  • The fortuitous friendship is a product of chance and a wrong text number.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
  • That faith has led Thomas through a fortuitous career on the Plains.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 31 Dec. 2019
  • If the timing is fortuitous, the promise of those young players is not.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2021
  • That Delta Kream and its short run even happened was fortuitous.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 2 June 2022
  • This Clippers run came at a fortuitous time for the franchise.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 3 July 2024
  • At first, that had seemed like a fortuitous gift from one of the few nations with an abundance of vaccines.
    — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2021
  • There's a lot of things that have to become fortuitous for that — a lot of commitment, a lot of time.
    — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 27 May 2025
  • Fryce Cream, a concept inspired by that fortuitous road trip pit stop.
    — Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The Oilers got that goal back with a somewhat fortuitous bounce on a strong shift from their top line.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2017
  • The timing of the book’s release was fortuitous in that regard.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Hamza Abdi made the most of a couple fortuitous bounces.
    — Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Keeley said the timing of the new funding is fortuitous.
    — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Short of a fortuitous gust of wind, the only way to pull it off is by putting an ample serving of spin on the ball.
    — Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 15 June 2018
  • Chayka called moving up a fortuitous bounce.
    — CBS News, 6 May 2026
  • Her second dress for the party was the result of a fortuitous meeting.
    — Belathée, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Oct. 2019

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