Examples of using "Fortuna" in a sentence and their english translations:
- We could've made a fortune.
- We could have made a fortune.
My uncle made a fortune.
He accumulated a large fortune.
John inherited a large fortune.
- Fortune favors the bold.
- Fortune favours the bold.
That cost me a fortune.
- It must have cost a fortune.
- It must've cost a fortune.
He made a fortune in oil.
This diamond costs a fortune.
He lost all his riches.
Raising a child costs a fortune.
and adds wealth to your fortune
The man built up a large fortune.
He would give an arm and a leg for that.
It's worth a fortune.
He made his fortune dealing in illegal weapons.
This car cost me a fortune.
This is a fortune for us.
- Tom must have spent a fortune.
- Tom must've spent a fortune.
Raising a child costs a fortune.
Fortune comes in by a merry gate.
By virtue of frugality he has made a fortune.
- My father left me a large fortune.
- My father left me a large inheritance.
Tom lost a fortune in the stock market.
He left a large fortune to his son.
Raising a child costs a fortune.
Tom donated his entire fortune to charity.
This diamond ring costs a fortune.
He amassed a large fortune before he died.
It cost me a fortune to get my car repaired.
He lost a fortune in the stock market.
He wasn't happy in spite of all his wealth.
Tom has great wealth, but he is not happy.
This computer is excellent, but it cost me a fortune.
- How fleetly in my damage cruel Fortune has changed!
- How quickly to my detriment cruel Luck has changed!
I'd like to buy this computer, but it costs a fortune!
The chance and fortune that evil spirits stole
- Tom must have spent a fortune on his new house.
- Tom must've spent a fortune on his new house.
Sami wanted a son to inherit his name and fortune.
I thought that a laptop would cost a fortune; however, the prices have gone down considerably.
A fortune so big that Venezuela could have even bought multinationals like Goldman Sachs,
Happiness lies in the little things: a small yacht, a small mansion, a small fortune...
"What happy ages did thy birth delight? / What godlike parents bore a child so bright?"
Bill Gates is still the richest person in the world. According to Forbes magazine, he has a fortune of $86 billion, up from $75 billion in 2016.
"Alas! what lot is thine? What worthy fate / hath caught thee, fallen from a spouse so high? / Hector's Andromache, art thou the mate / of Pyrrhus?"
When people said that Tom had married Mary only because her uncle had left her a fortune, he answered that he would have done so regardless of who had left her the inheritance.
Responsibility is a detachable burden that can easily be shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
With gushing tears I bid the pair farewell. / "Live happy ye, whose destinies are o'er; / we still must wander where the Fates compel."
- With a sudden chill weakening every part of his body, Aeneas groans and, stretching both hands to the stars, cries out thus: "O thrice and four times blessed, whose lot it was to perish before the faces of their fathers under the high walls of Troy!"
- Then AEneas' limbs with fear / were loosened, and he groaned and stretched his hands in prayer. / "Thrice, four times blest, who, in their fathers' face / fell by the walls of Ilion far away!"
But when our fortune and our hopes declined, / the treacherous King the conqueror's cause professed, / and, false to faith, to friendship and to kind, / slew Polydorus, and his wealth possessed. / Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power attest!
When I was very young, my father died. His younger brother, due to the vicissitudes of the times and to his own laziness, dissipated his own fortune and afterwards became a peddler of writing materials. He often came to our house, but when he came, my mother would scold him and he would be troubled.