How to Use serendipity in a Sentence

serendipity

noun
  • They found each other by pure serendipity.
  • If a book can change your life, why leave that to serendipity?
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • But, as with many things about this project, serendipity seemed to have a hand in it.
    — Andy Gensler, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2017
  • But the two-year trend argues there's more than serendipity at work.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Sep. 2017
  • His work still evokes the dreaminess and serendipity of a stroll through the streets.
    — Miguel Morales, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Through sheer serendipity, this odd triple-star planet popped up first.
    — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2016
  • That means serendipity now has to be scheduled.
    — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • For most of his life, he has been blessed with good fortune, tinged with a bit of serendipity.
    — Marice Richter, star-telegram, 27 Oct. 2017
  • And what kind of serendipity to expect?
    — Road Trips, AFAR Media, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The story of how that came about is rich with humor and serendipity.
    — Robert Leonard, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
  • During your time off, your only job is to make room for serendipity.
    — Anne Quito, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The answer, as these things so often do, came in a bit of serendipity.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Nov. 2020
  • That was a key step in many famous instances of serendipity.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Does all this rely on serendipity?
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
  • That Hodges ended up on this stage is at its core a story of serendipity.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The wheel of fortune is blessing you with a day of pleasure and serendipity.
    — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • But that kind of serendipity is just life for the Dutch designer.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2018
  • This was an analog world, a world in which serendipity was still possible.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
  • So, my travel tip for visitors is to leave room for serendipity.
    — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
  • The film has been described as an exploration of fate and serendipity.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Simkin and Ronane agreed that serendipity and timing have a lot to do with who gets cast in a film.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2025
  • So the serendipity of that moment added to my level of gratitude to be on the project.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • There is a certain amount of serendipity involved in the cap spike arriving just at the right time.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • This left zero time for serendipity — or just plain relaxing.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But what happened next was a magical mix of serendipity and the kindness of strangers.
    — Erin Clack, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Plus a welcome streak of serendipity that buoyed the Orioles almost to the end.
    — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • That a Yank would come along decades later to buy the house felt like serendipity to the family.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Kearns, the Rady chief executive, said that serendipity played a big role in this case.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The Dress seemed like a fluke, a one-off moment of miraculous serendipity.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 18 May 2018
  • But Augustin landed the role through the charmed stroke of serendipity and destiny.
    — Yolanda Baruch, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023

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