bad luck

Example Sentences

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She added women may accept one miscarriage as bad luck, but when it happens again they frequently start to wonder if they are somehow at fault.

From BBC

“I think just sitting around with the coaches and just talking, for us to put a good streak together here. We need Geno and some of his bad luck to turn a little bit.”

From Seattle Times

That was the case for Tony, a homeless man I met last week in Sacramento, who says he ended up in a tent after “a storm of bad luck.”

From Los Angeles Times

There are some indications they’ve been the victim of bad luck.

From Los Angeles Times

“He just had bad luck because the cages were located near his house,” the lawyer said.

From New York Times