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Sentence Examples Trapped against the British minefields, his Afrika Korps came within an ace of running out of ammunition and fuel, but his legendary luck held. A gambler usually wagers more after taking a loss, in the misguided belief that a run of bad luck increases the probability of a win. As well as skill and luck, players will need fitness and endurance to be in the race for these prizes. With any luck, they'll be able to sustain this level of quality when the gang end up in Arizona. A rabbit's foot brings good luck, though I'm sure all those the three-legged rabbits wouldn't necessarily agree. This group is also the most likely to carry something like a coin, a rabbit's foot, or a necklace for good luck. Charlie attributes his lousy luck to the loss of his rabbit's foot and horseshoe. With the world rushing towards the Great Depression many old Diggers found themselves out of work, out of luck and out on the wallaby track. If the vote does any good, it will be more by good luck and war weariness than good planning. I was repeatedly informed it was just bad luck and handed yet another prescription. As luck would have it, he threw an ambsace! The Horse You Came in On Saloon, Baltimore Horse-themed bars must be bad luck for famous authors. But good luck convincing other countries that the case against North Korea is airtight. France were much quicker in setting up scoring chances but they squandered them with the reckless abandon of a gambler, certain the luck would hold all night. However, this same high court threw out the acquittal in the first place, so Knox may need more than luck to walk free. It is a common superstition that a black cat crossing your path is bad luck. Since Wright had no plans to take part in the beachside homily and ticket booths were shuttered, she was out of luck. But when they pass a U.S. Marine recruiting booth, Weston steps forward to try his luck on the chin-up bar. Or am I and others who cite luck, including Shipman, simply more self-aware or forthcoming than most people, especially men? His coal miner father had been the one whose luck ran out when he was bayoneted to death by a Japanese soldier. Show More Sentences If getting good results is somewhat random, then all those professors are very vulnerable to a string of bad luck. After several rounds of Facebook deletions, Cindy Starfall continues to try her luck. It was their bad luck that the waiting period coincided with the hottest July on record. The best ways to find a shoe tree are luck, accident, or word of mouth. Getting smoked was just bad luck, and the more times you rolled, the more likely you were to see snake eyes. Chinese people originally believed that the fireworks could expel evil spirits and bring about luck and happiness. Billington ascribes this failure rate to poor choices by Olivier rather than mere bad luck. More bad luck struck him in Spain where he kept pace with Prost for most of the race only for his engine to fail. While Menu was a championship contender, Hoy had constant failures and bad luck during the first half of the season. Smaller branches were positioned in the gateway of every house to ensure good luck for the rest of the year. There is a famous Fairy Bridge and it is said to be bad luck if one fails to wish the fairies good morning or afternoon when passing over it. It used to be a tradition to leave a coin on the bridge to ensure good luck. All through the wars there are examples of this kind of luck falling on captains. With considerable skill and some luck, Walpole acted quickly to restore public credit and confidence, and led the country out of the crisis. Flags were hung from the masts to bring good luck and women to the sailors. This of course leaves much of the huge immigrant population of Tijuana out of luck, as many of them don't have identification cards. Hikers frequently add stones to existing cairns trying to get just one more on top of the pile, to bring good luck. Social advancement was thus not dependent solely on birth, patronage, good luck, or even extraordinary ability. The only luck the settlers had was in giant turtle hunting, but fewer and fewer men were fit enough for such strenuous work. To encounter a stoat when setting out for a journey was considered bad luck, but one could avert this by greeting the stoat as a neighbour. Show More Sentences The custom has been to some extent sanitised by tourist guides who claim that the spitting is merely for good luck. Thanks, wishes of future good luck and hugs are usually exchanged between the teams. A disputed goal by the Sabres in Game 3, and a disputed nongoal by the Islanders in Game 4, began a kind of bad luck theme. Welsh responded to his bad luck by throwing himself back into competitive fighting. Another tradition claims that if the water boils while visitors are present, then love and good luck will surely follow. In the Hawaiian language, honu is used to refer to this species, and it is locally known as a symbol of good luck and longevity. May further asserted that, despite Allied mistakes, the Germans could not have succeeded but for outrageous good luck. In general, owls are viewed as harbingers of bad luck, ill health, or death. To point the bone at someone is considered bad luck in some cultures, such as Australian aborigines, such as by the Kurdaitcha. Marius' colleague Quintus Lutatius Catulus in 102 BC did not have as much luck. By a stroke of luck, a thaw prevented the Chatti from crossing the Rhine and coming to Saturninus' aid. It was a difficult battle for both sides, but, by a stroke of luck, the Spanish came out victorious. We still can't PLAY that English version, mate, so we're out of luck. It's moon runes or nothing for America. I wasn't expecting you for dinner, so you'll have to take pot luck. By a stroke of luck, there were still a few tickets left when we arrived. Ameritrash players like to play games with lots of dice, blind luck and space marines fighting zombies. I didn't plan to stop there, but as luck would have it, they were open when I went by. No one ever believed that Leif meant any harm, but all the luck he brought was backhanded. So I wish you luck, but don't come crying to me when it blows up in your face. Brazil started as favourites and as luck would have it, they bombed out in the quarterfinals. Show More Sentences Half the bad men are only coltish cowpunchers gone wrong through rotten whiskey and luck breaking bad for them. If Crabtree is down on his luck he will most likely be willing to do anything for money. The bartender was a droid, as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories. Hi everypony! I'm back from Germany and my luck held out! You'd never believe what I found! I'm going to have my bedroom feng shuied. Maybe this will finally bring me good luck. Now and then, when luck had favoured me, I had managed to get five shillings for a feuilleton from some newspaper or other. Of course, a lot of them say it is just their luck because they are not good enough grabbers to get in on anything like that. I should have walked away from the casino when my luck went south, but I stayed and ended up in the hole. He then succeeded his cousin as King of Dublin, but after a heavy defeat in battle in 947, he was once again forced to try his luck elsewhere. John failed and then had worse luck when it was discovered Richard was alive, which wasn't known until this point. For luck, many of the brides would attend in their wedding gown and veil, although this custom has long since disappeared from the islands. It was a plan of Louis Quatorzian presumption, and we all know what happens to people who push their luck. He has a lot of luck with the ladies, perhaps it is because of his new motorbike. I tried for ages to find a pair of blue suede shoes, but didn't have any luck. The creators of tool-assisted speedruns often manipulate a lot of luck to get the most favorable results in order to save the most time. If you've never been a smoker and you develop lung cancer, how did you get it? Is it genetics, environment, radon, luck of the draw? Malicious magic users can become a credible cause for disease, sickness in animals, bad luck, sudden death, impotence and other such misfortunes. It is considered good luck to shake the champagne bottle and spray around at midnight. Their beliefs revolve around a ritual ceremony called Wor, where they will be plagued by all kinds of bad luck and sickness. Here he met Yarilo Zyryan, who had had similar bad luck on the Alazeya River. Show More Sentences The jury had little choice but to free the killer. Sane enough at least not to push his luck, Sledge immediately left the state. A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit. In December 2015, medical scientists reported that cancer is overwhelmingly a result of environmental factors, and not largely down to bad luck. Some historians claim it was placed there in order to bring luck to the city and its inhabitants. Blackburn rode their luck to beat a battling West Brom as they moved up to seventh in the Premier League table. The City Council was considering whether to remove the stone in order to try and stop the bad luck which had struck the city. With a bit of luck the guard room will be empty, we'll grab some coats, press some buttons and just ship out of here. Good luck and goodbye to the most sick-making,hypocritical bunch of shitgibbons i've yet encountered on the Web! If it's just a standard loader, Taper will allow you to convert a.voc into a.tap. If it's a turboloader of any sort, you're out of luck. The Absurdist Pipe Band, a group of bagpipe players dressed as clowns, also try their luck. Vodouisants believe that if the lwa are pleased with your actions, they will reward you with health, financial success, and all-around good luck. Reading with Babalawo, Palero, and Santero to better your future, luck, love, job and heath. Our platoon sergeant says we need to get endorsements For air brakes now, but I'm having no luck finding any info on CDL training. And, as luck would have it, they were there on July 23 to witness Mark Buehrle of the White Sox throw a perfect game against the Rays. Anyone who wanted to see Shia LaBeouf without the buff is out of luck. His capture could have been very bad luck for Col. caballero. From hard luck to hard hits, from X's and O's to dollars and cents, this book explores the modern game of football from every angle. Traditionally the yule log symbolised security and good luck for the forthcoming year. Wearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck. The story is a classic of doggedness, cleverness, and a little luck. Show More Sentences Instead, you made it wall humping and pure luck. That is jackassitude. With any luck, we'll be able to finish our assignment before the deadline. After four years, the Scandinavians therefore split up, some to settle in Northumbria and East Anglia, the remainder to try their luck again on the Continent. In Italy he was worshipped as a god of merchants and traders, although others also prayed to him for his characteristic gifts of good luck or rescue from danger. The British experienced a stroke of luck in November 1939 when a German mine was dropped from an aircraft onto the mud flats off Shoeburyness during low tide. For a long time, opah has been thought to be good luck so it was only given away, never sold. Opah is a nonschooling open-ocean fish so it's not caught in great quantities. But, as luck would have it, scarcely had he started to row his boat again when an oarlock broke, and so it took him the best part of an hour to make the trip. Also during the 19th century bagpipes were played on ships sailing off to war to keep the men's hopes up and to bring good luck in the coming war. The gown is never to be joined at the top as this is considered bad luck. As a result of this stroke of luck, he was nicknamed the Fortunate. As the use of the color green in the film has artistic importance, matching a shade of green was a stroke of luck for restoration and provided a reference shade. This allowed the Inca to indoctrinate them into the Inca nobility and, with luck, marry their daughters into families at various corners of the empire. Marcus Willis... had been driving the coaches at the Lawn Tennis Association to distraction, and with this latest bit of prattery finally pushed his luck too far. However, an enormous stroke of bad luck meant that the building was covered in wooden scaffolding, undergoing piecemeal restoration by a relatively unknown Christopher Wren. Now I hear some of you jackholes want to sue Nancy...HA! good luck! Tough luck. Too quick in covering to let them see her boobs. Drake was naturally pleased at his good luck in capturing the galleon and he showed it by dining with the captured ship's officers and gentleman passengers. John gave Rebecca a goodbye to wish her luck on her holiday. With a bit of luck we're not only stopped a big war in the Middle East, but we're halted the march of Russia through the Middle East and on to the African continent. You can clearly see in the picture that the monkey's head is no longer the same colour as the rest of his body as a result of the many hands that have stroked it for luck. Show More Sentences Chance, luck, and even the vagaries of the weather played crucial roles. So if it was help Michael wanted, well, whoops, he was fresh out of luck. This ritual is aimed at bringing good luck in the forthcoming marriage. Sailors and fisherman would likewise discard a crust to appease the spirits of dead mariners, though fishermen believed that it was bad luck to take a pasty aboard ship. It also included other gifts, such as second sight to a certain extent, the power to bring good or evil luck, and the ability already mentioned to deal death at will. So great was the shame, and the ill luck thought to adhere to the numbers of the Legions, that XVII, XVIII and XIX never again appear in the Roman Army's order of battle. By finding this clover, your streak of good luck has already begun. By wishing someone bad luck, it is supposed that the opposite will occur. Sonmi helped sick uns, fixed busted luck, an' when a truesome'n'civ'lized Valleysman died she'd take his soul an' lead it back into a womb somewhere in the Valleys. It says something about the girl's ability or luck in shaping and securing the tent that not once did it begin to fold or come loose from its cinchings to the raft. In Tanzania in 2008, President Kikwete publicly condemned witchdoctors for killing albinos for their body parts, which are thought to bring good luck. I couldn't believe my luck when I found a fifty dollar bill on the street. Examples from Classical Literature We hear a good deal about good or bad luck or chance in the matter of love. And he was both to batter it down, for he still had the gambler's faith in his luck. An attempt to rise and trust to luck was baulked by my engine losing speed. It looks like Mammy Susan has all the luck with citronella and I have luck with rose geranium. Cilla sprang to her, followed by the guide, imprecating bad luck to the slippery stones. How could it do that whin it brought me the bist of luck, being I came to your door? He must get to the cache with the liquor, and trust to the luck of the reckless to get away. There probably is some black spot in his life which has brought him good luck. You can figure things out in your own little head instead of just getting along on dum psionic luck like us amoebae. But I was in luck 'cause a Frenchman had just started his camion an' I jumped in and said the gendarmes were after me. Malcolm, with the canniness of his kind, at once told her he had had no luck. That night, after cursing myself for a churl, I wrote and wished her good luck. He got a letter after you had gone, and then he wrote you about the bad luck nonsense. He never talks of much else, 'cept when he sings, but he has fair fishin' luck. They regarded her, not as captain of war but as a bringer of good luck. It was our bull-headed luck to hit the place right when we did. But he must have had better luck on his flight from Worcester than I had on that miserable isle. Good-by, Ralph, and good luck to you in getting that cadetship. Beastly luck, but I shan't be able to see you to-night even in Cairo. He was in luck, Ce beau garcon, for he was getting an angel for his wife. Show More Sentences I got six months in blighty, and haven't had the same luck since. I had one or two pieces of luck in the way of accidental cases. I 've 'ad nothing but bad luck since I first took up with you. The aeronaut had the good luck to get off with a broken thigh. Then the albatross steers out to sea to try his luck elsewhere. I began writing a telegram to my wife, apprising her of our good luck. But among the revellers was Johnny Og's jockey Ian Popham, who has endured a basinful of bad luck over the last 16 months. It may be that we've broke our bad luck with the little mare. It would a-broke the bad luck, sor, to have let him took the Black. No doubt there is in his life some blemish that has brought him luck. Did A' no' tell ye, Captain blackie, sir-r, that ma luck was oot? For that I want give you something to bling you much good luck. Much obleeged to ye, sir, boh ey'd leefer be without the luck. Well, good luck to you, Pres. Write to me from Honolulu, and bon voyage. And, as luck would have it, Norm Macdonald was there with Miller throughout the 20th century, offering comic insights that invariably degenerate into lame genitalia jape. His yellow-green eyes were fastened upon Tarzan as he halted just within the clearing and glared enviously at the successful hunter, for Numa had had no luck this night. She was now housekeeper and was also acting for the time as superintendent to the little girl, of whom, without children of her own, she was, by good luck, extremely fond. He also uses a drinking game to test whether it''s possible to create luck, as well as building a water clock and making a coat that doubles as a bed. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of luck? Words that rhyme with luck What is the past tense of luck? What is the adverb for luck? What is the adjective for luck? What is the noun for luck? Translations for luck Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Lucius Lucite lucite Lucio Lucinda Lucina Luck lucked lucker luckie Luckie luckier 4-letter Words Starting With l lu luc