lucky strike
Example Sentences
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The ranch proved to be a lucky strike, as well as a challenge.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023
His first lucky strike came when Eugene Jhong, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Harvard alum who had heard Loeb talking about aliens on a podcast, offered up $1 million, no strings attached.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 27, 2022
If push came to shove, Sansa could have gotten a lucky strike in on the Night King.
From Salon • May 2, 2019
Unearthing an original That’s All Right record became a £4,000 lucky strike; a set of five original Sun singles at one time fetched £25,000.
From The Guardian • May 7, 2017
Towns straggled here and there untidily at haphazard, mushroom growths of a day born of a lucky "strike."
From A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today by Raine, William MacLeod
