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How to use the word fortunate in a Sentence? Page #4

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You know, it’s the oldest cliché in hockey, but the fourth one’s going to be the hardest and we’re fortunate to have the opportunity at home and we’ll be ready to go in Game 6.

Eric Staal

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Coach Phelan is Mount St. Mary's basketball, i found out the news after dropping my daughters at school as I was driving to campus. I thought about how fortunate I am to coach at the place that Coach Phelan built and grateful that he built it on family. I get to share his desk and I get to coach in the gym that he changed lives in — what an honor.

Dan Engelstad

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Off the bat, I knew I hit it well, but the ball just kept carrying, i was fortunate enough to get it over the fence. The thought process behind that at-bat was the at-bat before I chased an offspeed pitch and hit it weakly to first base. My goal was just basically let the ball get deep, let it travel and try to stay up the middle as best I could.

Alex Verdugo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As a trans person, my life is always in danger, i feel I was fortunate enough to be able to navigate that place where I can turn my anger into activism.

Phelix Crittenden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The stuff that’s been happening over the last week — we all know that fans shouldn’t be doing that stuff. That shouldn’t happen during the game, just sit there and enjoy the game or stay home and watch it on TV. We’re fortunate nobody got hurt.

Bradley Beal

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I remember just how hard they had it (in 2015). Like it was like, concrete back then, and obviously the greens were borderline concrete too and a little bumpy, but this is one of the coolest courses I’ve played, and I’ve been fortunate to play some really, really cool courses.

Danny Woodhead

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are fortunate that there has been an intense effort to get data about women who do get vaccinated while pregnant to understand what happens so other women can learn from that, based on what we know right now we recommend that women be offered vaccines during pregnancy, that they’re eligible to get them and that they can make a choice about it.

Anne Schuchat

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our sets, Jerry's office, our little dressing room trailers, were all within 60 feet of each other, how fortunate is that – to have your office right next door to your boyfriend's?

Tawny Kitaen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm very fortunate that I don't have any underlying conditions and I'm only 36.

Jessy Patterson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I applaud and look up to those women who can do it all, but I’m not one of them – and, thankfully, I have a choice not to work and I realize how fortunate I am that it’s even a choice, i’ve been so happy to be able to incubate with my babies, but now they are four and six, I’m starting to feel like my ambition is coming back.

Eva Mendes

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I feel very fortunate to have a front row seat for it, i feel fortunate that I know the man and the athlete having coached him. He was a gentleman. He was a great teammate. That’s gon na be one of those things I ’ll be able to tell my grandkids about one day, that not only did I coach him, but I was there for that night, pretty special accomplishment.

Golden Knights

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If you do the math, there is plenty of supply to continue to vaccinate Americans at 3 million per day, and then some. That's not to mention the fact that there are many doses that have already been distributed into states, i think White House officials're in the fortunate position, White House officials have to remind White House officials, where White House officials have three vaccines approved that are very effective vaccines, but White House officials are also importantly not dependent upon this.

Andy Slavitt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We didn’t deal with this last year and feel very fortunate in that way, you’re worried about the health and well-being of others and I think it hits home every time my phone rings and it's one of the docs or trainers. Your heart stings. And we’re trying to win ballgames, too.

Manager David Ross

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I am grateful to the people of Alabama who have put their trust in me for more than forty years. I have been fortunate to serve in the U.S. Senate longer than any other Alabamian.

Richard Shelby

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Now fear has never been the best of who we are, and as for freedom, it's not the property of just the fortunate few, it belongs to us all. Whoever you are, wherever you're from, it's what connects us, and we need that connection. We need the middle.

The Boss

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We appreciate the historical significance of moving the entire championship to one region and want to acknowledge the work by the Women’s Basketball Committee and staff, our hosts, local organizers and ESPN that has allowed us to make plans for a successful 2021 championship, we’re fortunate to be working with San Antonio, which features one of the most experienced local organizing committees in the country, and our No. 1 priority is to focus on creating and implementing safety controls in an environment for student-athletes, coaches, administrators, officials and everyone else associated with the championship.

Lynn Holzman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We are in a fortunate situation as Hungarian people are family-centric, therefore, they assess measures to help families or young people starting a family positively, we are ready to continue on this path and pledge that we will not cut back on family benefits. On the contrary, we will continuously expand them.

Katalin Novak

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Any time you can help your team is a good feeling, when you have a defenseman on the rush, that opens things up. I was fortunate to take the shot and it went in.

Andreas Athanasiou

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

These regulations are in place to save lives and to keep hospitals available for those who truly need it, i am fortunate to have had a bed and a medical team available for me in my time of need. We must all do our utmost to give that same opportunity to those who need it.

Lana Marks

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We just warmed up some kids in the back of some ambulances, we didn’t transport anybody and we handed them off to their parents, it was a very fortunate outcome.

Daniel Kline

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This is the hardest time in our lives for all of us. Were so fortunate. We have our health. Have a job. Im not going to act like things are so tough, really proud of our team, how mature theyve been and how focused they have been. This is what it is right now. If you want to play, you have to do it.

Tara VanDerveer

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Welcome to the future, this is what the next two years is going to look like, and if we're fortunate there are going to be lots of these.

Jim Kessler

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Gone is the best mother, the best girlfriend, that a girl could ever have, i feel fortunate that I had her in my life all of my 56 years.

Wendy Williams

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I was speechless, I mean I never could have envisioned something like this happening to me, let alone for something I did, i'm not really one for the spotlight, but this has been a truly incredible experience. I feel very fortunate, and I am endlessly appreciative to my colleagues, students, administrators, community members, and my wife that really helped make all of the PPE in the thick of the pandemic, and even more so for the frontline workers we were making the PPE for.

Cara Erdreich

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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