bad luck

Example Sentences

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She treats him compassionately, seeing him as a person with an unusually difficult background, and wants us to relate to him as though, given similar bad luck, we could easily be in his position.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

If you have the bad luck of experiencing a market downturn at the outset, your slope of growth will forever be lower.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

"If they do, they finish the ride then go to the back of their car and spit three times to dispel the bad luck," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

"It's not that he wasn't concentrating. It was just a bit of bad luck."

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

“Being kidnapped sounds like bad luck to me,” Finn said, giggling.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix