UNLUCKY in a Sentence
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38 example sentences for UNLUCKY, such as:
1. He was very unlucky not to win.
2. Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow.
3. I always seem to be unlucky at cards.
4. I was unlucky enough to lose my glasses.
5. That first unlucky obligation, I have paid.
2. Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow.
3. I always seem to be unlucky at cards.
4. I was unlucky enough to lose my glasses.
5. That first unlucky obligation, I have paid.
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Meanings and Examples of UNLUCKY
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unlucky
a. having or bringing misfortune
a. marked by or promising bad fortune
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1 We arrived at Lincoln's Inn Fields without any new adventures, except encountering an unlucky donkey in a costermonger's cart, who suggested painful associations to my aunt.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
2 His old simple character and good temper, and something of his old unlucky fortune also, I thought, smiled at me in the smile with which he made this explanation.
3 That first unlucky obligation, I have paid.
4 In this condition, he felt more incapable of finishing the Memorial than ever; and the harder he worked at it, the oftener that unlucky head of King Charles the First got into it.
5 This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour at six pounds ten per annum, was a source of continual trouble to me.
6 The race was an unlucky one, and of the seventeen officers who rode in it more than half were thrown and hurt.
7 But it was an unlucky day for him; he missed it, and when he went to look for the one he had shot, he could not find that either.
8 He restrained himself however, and the little squall would have blown over, but for one unlucky word.
9 Especially that they should revenge themselves on the unlucky bones of those who have not had the satisfaction of enjoying them.
10 It is unlucky," said she, after a short pause, "that you should not be able to see your friends before they leave the country.
11 I am particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so able to expose my real character, in a part of the world where I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit.
12 I had been long afraid of this resolution, and therefore concealed from her some little unlucky adventures, that happened in those times when I was left by myself.
13 The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the vehicle rested on his breast.
14 Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
15 I am an unlucky wretch; I am left outside.
Example Sentence:
1 He was very unlucky not to win.
2 By some unlucky chance, her name was left off the list.
3 I was unlucky enough to lose my glasses.
4 The number thirteen is traditionally considered unlucky.
5 Owen was unlucky not to score on two occasions.
6 Thierry Henry was desperately unlucky not to score when his shot hit the post.
7 I always seem to be unlucky at cards.
8 It's a common superstition that black cats are unlucky.