luck
Example Sentences
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Did Chelsea become bad finishers, was it simply a run of bad luck or was it something else?
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Green Lantern, a secondary figure in the DC Comics pantheon, had the ill luck to be trapped in a 2011 Ryan Reynolds film even its director didn’t like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
He even showed up to a couple of them hoping someone would drop out, without any luck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
“That will welcome summer,” he told me, “and will give you strength and good luck for the whole of the year.”
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Besides, there were a few bad luck things that I believed in—things like hearing a screech owl at midnight, tripping over a broom, or dropping the water bucket in the well.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
