luck

Example Sentences

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MONTOYA'S LUCK: Juan Pablo Montoya has had some really bad luck at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2012

I find the following attributed to Coleridge, but I know not on what authority, as it does not appear among his collected poems:— JOB'S LUCK, BY S. T. COLERIDGE, ESQ.

From Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 by Various

There was never a better play than POT LUCK; for it tells a tale with a point and a tale that might happen any day among English peasants.

From A Miscellany of Men by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

The doctrine of chances tends to explode the long-standing superstition that there is in play such a thing as LUCK, good or bad.

From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew

But of course, in conversation, much depends upon what may be called LUCK.

From The Upton Letters by Benson, Arthur Christopher