unlucky
Example Sentences
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Your friend was unlucky that she took a tumble on those basement stairs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Going back to our earlier example, if the million-dollar home fell in value by 10%, the unlucky owner of this highly leveraged asset would lose 50% of their initial equity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"Some magic is happening. I was unlucky with injury and just going day by day," Rybakina told Sky Sports.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Characters forced to make do either lash out, like raging overreactors on Lee Sung Jin’s petty, brutal “Beef,” or fall into holding patterns, like the unlucky in love leads of Issa Rae’s dramedy “Insecure.”
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
The unlucky pair stumbled off through the nighttime woodland, gesticulating and muttering together, weaving a fabric of lies that they hoped would satisfy Cluny the Scourge.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
"We couldn't have been unluckier than that. This is not what we were expecting," said Harmanpreet.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023
"Is there anyone unluckier than me?" said Xiaohongshu user "sanmingliu", who posted photos of her shipping container room.
From Reuters ● Nov. 2, 2022
Meanwhile, there are tens of thousands of unluckier Afghans who did not manage to board a flight to the United States last summer.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2022
We saw that, though we were born in far unluckier places, we have all the same talents as our Western-born peers.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2019
I can; and, Master, unluckier than I am I cannot be, so that life is little to me.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
The first thing that had to go right was an unbelievable stroke of luck on the unluckiest night of Tatum’s life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
They have been called “the unluckiest generation” in U.S. history.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026
He added: “She was the unluckiest person I’d ever heard of.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
Mr Beer wasn’t impressed and asked her: “Do you think you’re the unluckiest CEO in history?”
From BBC ● May 24, 2024
“It’s the unluckiest thing you can have on a racetrack.”
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
