LUCK in a Sentence
Learn LUCK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
172 example sentences for LUCK, such as:
1. We lamented over our bad luck.
2. It's luck for us, that cross is.
3. Behind bad luck comes good luck.
4. Bad luck always comes in threes.
5. Just a quick note to wish you luck.
2. It's luck for us, that cross is.
3. Behind bad luck comes good luck.
4. Bad luck always comes in threes.
5. Just a quick note to wish you luck.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of LUCK
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luck
n. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
n. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
Classic Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1 At last luck seemed to settle and abide with Joe.
2 He started to school and had the luck of coming upon Becky Thatcher at the head of Meadow Lane.
3 Becky snatched at the book to close it, and had the hard luck to tear the pictured page half down the middle.
4 Tuesday the boys had the same ill luck.
5 It's luck for us, that cross is.
6 I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me.
7 I reached for some of it as quick as I could to throw over my left shoulder and keep off the bad luck, but Miss Watson was in ahead of me, and crossed me off.
8 There is ways to keep off some kinds of bad luck, but this wasn't one of them kind; so I never tried to do anything, but just poked along low-spirited and on the watch-out.
9 He drank and drank, and tumbled down on his blankets by and by; but luck didn't run my way.
10 I changed to the Illinois edge of the island to see what luck I could have, and I warn't disappointed.
11 But I hadn't no luck somehow; I couldn't seem to find the place.
12 And Jim said you mustn't count the things you are going to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck.
13 I said it looked to me like all the signs was about bad luck, and so I asked him if there warn't any good-luck signs.
14 And he said that handling a snake-skin was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn't got to the end of it yet.
15 Say, I reckon your father's poor, and I'm bound to say he's in pretty hard luck.
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1 According to popular folklore, anyone who owns such a picture will have bad luck.
2 According to superstition, if you walk under a ladder it brings you bad luck.
3 Best of luck in the year ahead in your business.
4 See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all day.
5 Bad luck always comes in threes.
6 I always lose at cards, with my bad luck.
7 Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
8 The worse luck now, the better another time.
9 Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
10 Bad luck may befall to anyone at any time.
11 Behind bad luck comes good luck.
12 We lamented over our bad luck.
13 A spell of tough luck discouraged him.
14 Just a quick note to wish you luck.
15 I wish you both all the luck and happiness life can offer.