lucky find

Example Sentences

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"It was a lucky find, I must admit," he told me the last time we spoke.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2023

Mr. Denney traveled to Minnesota to pick up the money, and gave the boy and his family a customized cooler when they refused a monetary reward for the lucky find.

From Washington Times • Aug. 23, 2023

Few portraits remain of Mary, said Anderson, making this sketch a particularly lucky find.

From National Geographic • Oct. 31, 2017

It was a really lucky find, which often is the case for me.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2015

Overhead, three separate lines of copper wire ran ahead of him, a lucky find that meant he might even make Bapi’s quota, but Nailer was having a hard time caring.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi