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
“It was a lucky strike: we found that there was this deletion. But it was distinct from FAAH. It was away from FAAH, just downstream.”
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020
If push came to shove, Sansa could have gotten a lucky strike in on the Night King.
From Salon • May 2, 2019
He had lived its rough-and-tumble life for years before he made his lucky strike in the Bird Cage.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by Raine, William MacLeod
