How to Use fate in a Sentence

fate

1 of 2 noun
Definition of fatenext
Synonyms for fatenext
  • Her fate was sealed by the marriage arrangement made in her youth.
  • They thought they would never see each other again, but fate brought them back together.
  • One company went bankrupt, and a similar fate befell the other.
  • The fate of Grey’s Anatomy has been in flux for a while.
    — Leah Marilla Thomas, Glamour, 30 Dec. 2023
  • For months though, Lim did not know this had been her son’s fate.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The same fate could await the Nissan Versa, which first went on sale in the summer of 2006.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2023
  • While the case proceeds, the fate of the house where the murders occurred has been a point of contention.
    — Mike Baker, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Councilmembers will decide the fate of the case April 9.
    — Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The amendment’s fate won’t be known until that process plays out.
    — Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2023
  • Then each member meets a fate similar to that of the Romanovs in 1918.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
  • Morocco and Spain were in conflict over the fate of the colony, and the boat was reserved for soldiers.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In a sad turn of fate, there aren't many of those: natural redheads.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Democrats are torn on whether to save Kevin McCarthy as his fate as House speaker hangs in the balance.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2023
  • These are anxious times in Moldova, where few doubt that the small nation’s fate hangs in the balance of the outcome in Ukraine.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • The Cher cameo was a milestone for a show that had an uncertain fate from the beginning.
    — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Bans or restrictions are on hold in at least six states while judges sort out their long-term fate.
    — Geoff Mulvihill, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2023
  • But White didn’t go looking, and their fate remains a mystery.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The news that few besides the women and children were saved has caused the greatest apprehension to the fate of these.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • When thinking about a championship, there's always one unit that will decide the fate of the game.
    — Kevin Skiver, Detroit Free Press, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Millions waited with bated breath to learn the fate of the sub’s five occupants.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 June 2023
  • Our fates on the road are, in a sense, intertwined, as both humans and wildlife must travel to survive.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The late night space is about to enter an election year, where the fate of the American democracy appears to be on the line.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The fate of more than 150 hostages that Hamas seized during the incursion remained unclear.
    — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Tabletop gamers have plenty of great options to battle for the fate of the desert planet Arrakis.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The spectrum of outcomes for Cortes, Rodón, and Stroman will determine the Yankees’ fate in 2023.
    — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • That meant the treaty’s fate hinges on Tuvalu’s upcoming election.
    — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
  • At stake in the case is the fate of the Trump Organization in New York, where it was founded and grew into an empire.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Israel has lost, or never had, the right to determine the fate of Gaza—Palestinians do.
    — Dahlia Scheindlin, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Now the prospect of an invasion of Rafah has prompted global alarm over the fate of around 1.4 million civilians trapped there.
    — Tia Goldenberg, arkansasonline.com, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The entities’ fates were inextricably linked then, but there are key factors that could spare one of them as United undergoes an FAA probe of its own.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
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fate

2 of 2 verb
  • Call it fate, call it chance, the world moves on either way.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Still, Tanya Chutkan did not seem fated to take the world by storm.
    — Robert Draper, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Well, that’s a little bit up to them, a little bit up to fate.
    — Hayden Grove, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Both men are quitters, and both of them are resigned to fate.
    — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • At the very least, everyone seems to make her fate their problem.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2022
  • Born and raised in Triton, perhaps it was fated that Whalen now a thing or two.
    — Jennifer Billock, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The effort was too much and the young animal succumbed to fate, sliding down the snow into the abyss.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Years later, the pair is still thinking about their encounter, but will fate bring them together in the end?
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Dec. 2022
  • About one-third of the metropolis’s 460 deaths to fate were reported this month alone.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2020
  • Whether as rebels or loyalists, we’re all fated to be subjects in the kingdom of prep.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Perhaps this collaboration has been fated for the past 20 years and was well worth the wait.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Did getting more involved in activism as a young teen feel fated in any way?
    — WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • Instagram's Threads proves that social media is fated to repeat a cycle of life and death.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 July 2023
  • And inspiring the tales that followed the Beowulf text, the warrior who faced the dragon was fated for tragedy, slaying the beast but being mortally injured in the battle.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • To be a baker, Lidgus explains, is to be half control freak, half submissive to fate; to embrace a life of eternal adjustments.
    — New York Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Both were athletes, and by some combination of genetics and fate their daughter turned out a sporting prodigy.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • That was there too, but at its heart was a yearning for everything that the novel usually leaves out and that, in darker moments, seemed fated for destruction.
    — Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
  • Now the oil-rich country will forever have its name on a major climate deal, fated to be repeated over and over in diplomatic spaces for years to come.
    — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2023
  • While the pair starts out as enemies, the trailer reveals that these political royals are fated to grow much closer with each other.
    — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 6 July 2023
  • Trump, in a statement from Walter Reed hospital on Saturday, chalked up his diagnosis to fate and his desire to be seen leading the country.
    — Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg.com, 4 Oct. 2020
  • The struggle for Israel will therefore be fated to continue no matter the outcome of the judicial overhaul battle, observers say.
    — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2023
  • Thus begins Jérôme’s slow, torturous, and questionably necessary death, and with it a sequence of events that will transform the household, each ghastly step both fated and seemingly tipped by Francine’s hand.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Kyland volunteers, the Aces leave their nomination to fate, and Christian is down to compete knowing that Frenchie is probably targeting him.
    — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 12 July 2021
  • So much of this history involves things that have gone missing—swept away by cruelty, indifference, the ruthless reaping of time—that it seems fated to remain full of lacunae.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • When every character is fated, in turn, to meet their end, the lead-up loses its drama; every death occurs at the end of a long, rote recitation of incidents rather than as the culmination of a chaotic or unsettling turn of events.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
  • His Project Cassandra honored the Trojan priestess fated to utter true prophecies but never to be believed, as part of Kelly's efforts to raise alarms about the convergence of drug trafficking and terrorism.
    — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • Named after a Peruvian revolutionary and born to a Black Panther, Shakur was almost fated to reject authority and speak for the disenfranchised.
    — Spin Staff, Spin, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Some Ukrainians fear that the entire country is now fated to become like the Donbas, where accused collaborators and patriots still distrust and despise one another, nearly 10 years after the conflict there.
    — James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Shiru’s logo is made entirely of circles and represents cultural exchange or connections of students and companies, which also alludes to fate or destiny.
    — Fox News, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Bohjalian tracks his players as keenly as a leopard does its prey, matching psychology to fate with an almost pathological precision.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022

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