lucky break
Example Sentences
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Without her lucky break, she said, she would still be doing restaurant shifts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
A lucky break occurred, she told us, when a wealthy donor purchased a facility from a medical practice that had closed and donated it to the group.
From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026
While a fleet of dedicated gamma-ray telescopes is the best option for detecting gamma rays from a nearby supernova, a lucky break with Fermi would be even better.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024
A young musician whose lucky break came when talent show producers found an online video of him playing the piano at a shopping centre is dreaming of a big future.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2024
The emergency room is nearly abandoned at five-thirty in the morning—I don’t know how I caught that lucky break.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
