ill luck
Example Sentences
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As described by music critic Jeff Tamarkin, “The Grape’s saga is one of squandered potential, absurdly misguided decisions, ill luck, blunders and excruciating heartbreak.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021
Steyn, happily restored to full fitness after a terrible run of ill luck, can be a serious operator at this level.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2021
"Sometimes energy of this nature, chaos, ill luck, goes out in the world and begets and begets. Bad luck rarely stops with one occurrence. All Indians know that," Erdrich writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2016
Failure is a result not of ill luck but insufficient effort and a poor attitude.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2015
Kali bent forward eagerly, quivering in her excitement, and at that moment as ill luck would have it the child woke, opened his weak, pinkish eyes, yawned and began to yell piercingly.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
