unlucky

Example Sentences

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Unlucky Torino centre-back Coco saw the ball come off him and ricochet into the net in the 74th minute when his teammate Luis Asue attempted to clear a free-kick.

From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025

Appeared in the December 27, 2025, print edition as 'At 65, an Unlucky Job Seeker Faces a Bruising Reality'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Norris' engineer Will Joseph asked Norris over the radio whether he was all right and the Briton replied: "Yep, I'm sorry. It's all my bad, all my fault. Unlucky, sorry. Stupid from me."

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2025

Unlucky travelers can find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, like the tourists in the Gobi Desert, some of whom were bused 18 hours to finish their quarantine in another city.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2021

“Yes, it is annoying, that. Unlucky for your theory, and extremely lucky for our Italian friend that M. Ratchett’s valet should have had the toothache.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie