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
If you have the bad luck of experiencing a market downturn at the outset, your slope of growth will forever be lower.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 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
"If they do, they finish the ride then go to the back of their car and spit three times to dispel the bad luck," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
Just left me flat, in the middle of all that bad luck and broken sky.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
