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How to use the word fates in a Sentence?

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' Deportation' is a euphemism. It's been used as a fairly innocuous term for what happened to these people, which was effectively enslavement and starvation. is shipping off the women, the children, the people that you want to remove from societies in order to neutralize them, they are generally met with pretty horrific fates. If they survived at all, they did not return for years or decades.

Keir Giles

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Julius Caesar

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

Who is not willing to change the destiny ? All of us knew that going to university will change our fates.

Xiao Jianwen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We see greater polarization, more frequent gridlock; movements on the far right, and sometimes the left, that insist on stopping the trade that binds our fates to other nations, calling for the building of walls to keep out immigrants.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was shivering in darkness when I suddenly heard a voice; 'Lies, Lies where are you?' It was Anne, and I ran in the direction of the voice, and then I saw her beyond the barbed wire. She was in rags. I saw her emaciated, sunken face in the darkness. Her eyes were very large. We cried and cried, for now there was only the barbed wire between us, nothing more. And no longer any difference in our fates.

Hannah Pik-Goslar

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Quo fata trahunt, retrahuntque sequamur. (Wherever the fates may lead us, let us follow them.)

Vergil

added by anonymous
11 years ago

We cannot simply allow the treacherous few determine the fates of themany. At such times, the virtuous should be held to equalaccountability of the vile for their inactions

Ahmed Korayem

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Homer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

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14 years ago

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