How to Use fateful in a Sentence

fateful

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• Her campaign took a fateful turn.
• Hundreds perished on that fateful day.
• His life changed on that fateful November evening.
• At worst, this could be the start of a fateful tailspin.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• Yet in that fateful 26-game stretch, the Mets were outscored by just 11 runs.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
• This is about the non-yield since the Sox went out of their way to lock him up in that fateful spring.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• Then came that fateful meeting with Gaye at the Hoover Street Gym in 1978.
  — Matthew Allan, Rolling Stone, 4 Feb. 2023
• The fateful loss last season occurred on May 15, almost a year to the day of this one.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 12 May 2023
• Then one fateful night in August, Ernestine and I are about to go to bed.
  — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• That was where Zahawi stayed, until the fateful events of the 2022 summer.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Having landed in London, the ladies hear that fateful knock on the door.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023
• But when two friends sat down for a fateful meal in Tokyo, a big idea hit like a hearty dollop of wasabi.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• Rod isn't there for the band's fateful first meeting with Teddy.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Mar. 2023
• Since that fateful day, the Packers have gone 48-14 against Chicago.
  — Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The world watched – and mourned – as wildfires destroyed the town of Lahaina, Maui back on that fateful day of August 8.
  — Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• On the fateful play, Smith-Schuster ran a double move — cut inside, then to a wheel route on the outside.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• Now, the jacket that Jordan wore to accept his gold medal on that fateful day could be yours.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 11 May 2023
• Her fortunes soon changed after a fateful run-in with the Wayans brothers at her day job.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• The allure of a 3-pointer can prove friendly or fateful.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2023
• In the wake of that fateful night, the United States Army convicted 110 of the soldiers of murder, mutiny and other crimes.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• The feature explores the friendship between a dog and a robot — called Dog and Robot — who take a fateful trip to the beach.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2023
• Twenty-five years ago, publishers saw the rise of the internet, and made a fateful choice.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2023
• All of which had brought the family to this fateful moment three years later.
  — Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2023
• The Africa was towing a barge, named the Severn, and both vessels were carrying coal during the fateful trip in 1895.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
• Someone’s front-door camera showed two men walking up the street on that fateful night and meeting a third at a truck, Rogers said.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
• It’s been exactly one year since that fateful day marked the start of a string of subsequent bank failures.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• Unlike the public uproar over the Reef, the fateful votes that led to felony charges for Price happened with little fanfare.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• Since that fateful day in 1984, Apple has released hundreds of Mac models that run the gamut from amazing to strange.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
• Then came Wolfe’s fateful turn to fiction, which yielded two novels that were praised — overpraised, in my view — and two more that weren’t.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• In a February Instagram post, the actor shared the photos from that fateful day in 2015.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024