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
“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
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
Some day, if ever I make a lucky strike, I shall make a voyage like this as a passenger, and have all watches below.
From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack
