lucky strike
Example Sentences
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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
Grove had some popular best-sellers, like the psychiatrist Eric Berne’s “Games People Play,” which sold more than five million copies, a lucky strike that helped keep the company afloat in the nineteen-sixties.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
To where the boys made the lucky strike, of course.
From Two Boy Gold Miners or, Lost in the Mountains by Webster, Frank V.
