Fates

/ feɪts /

plural noun

1. Greek myth the three goddesses who control the destinies of the lives of man, which are likened to skeins of thread that they spin, measure out, and at last cut See Atropos Clotho Lachesis
2. Norse myth the Norns See Norn 1

Example Sentences

Retrieving him at least reminds soldiers that we will never abandon them to their fates, right or wrong.

From The Daily Beast

Little did those 200 people know they were going to have a big say in the comedic fates of a dozen comedians.

From The Daily Beast

We sat in the corner of a studio near his unfinished group of the “Fates.”

From The Daily Beast

Years later, they would joke among themselves in harsh terms about the fates of folks they felt had betrayed them.

From The Daily Beast

It was a strategic error to tie their fates to those regimes.

From The Daily Beast

He noticed the date on the hotel calendar, and realised that the Fates had another ten days in which to drown him.

From Project Gutenberg

Perhaps the fates have ordained me to be the historian of wine, in the very meaning of my name—ger-wn, not gr-wn.

From Project Gutenberg

As was to be looked for not all men fared alike in fortune, many fled & many who thus made their escape met differing fates.

From Project Gutenberg

I, followed the fates of my little slum-boys—and what I saw was that Tammany Hall was getting them.

From Project Gutenberg

The threads from which the tissue of history is being woven are ever in unceasing and rapid motion in the hands of the Fates.

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