fateful

Example Sentences

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But they couldn’t stand for what was happening at Quirky Books, which had changed dramatically since those fateful days in 2020.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

When players refused to sing the national anthem at a game in Australia, they set in motion a fateful series of events.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

It was a fateful decision, setting in motion a series of events that left them confronting the hardest decision of their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Their fateful assignment was depicted in the 2018 movie A Private War, with the actor Jamie Dornan playing Conroy.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

On a fateful day in 1907, Pieret got up off the couch and told Marie Laurencin, a painter and Apollinaire’s partner, that he was going to the Louvre that afternoon.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day