fortunately

Example Sentences

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Fascist regimes of the last century were much shorter-lived, fortunately.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

"We are aware that a number of private properties have been affected, but fortunately they were unoccupied at the time," said Cyngor Gwynedd.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

But fortunately, I’ve been very interested in two new themes that are going to be sure to produce blockbusters, which is memory and regret.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

The author relates her principal story, of the two sisters, in the present tense, while keeping historical context in the past—an idiosyncratic choice that, fortunately, doesn’t derail the book’s narrative momentum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

The parrot fortunately offered no further interruption to the entertainment the whole venom of his nature apparently having been cherished up and hurled against the twins in that one impetuous outburst.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin