bad luck

Example Sentences

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She treats him compassionately, seeing him as a person with an unusually difficult background, and wants us to relate to him as though, given similar bad luck, we could easily be in his position.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

The 28-year-old won the first race of the season in Australia, and lost out on victories in China and Japan through bad luck.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

“Bad years for the S&P 500 are due to very specific factors, not just bad luck or arbitrary changes in investor sentiment,” said Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek, in commentary shared with MarketWatch on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

No college basketball fan weeps for the Blue Devils’ bad luck, but Duke knows better than most that a great regular season doesn’t guarantee a championship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

To do so is the worst kind of bad luck, for this particular play is thought to have a curse upon it.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood