How to Use unlucky in a Sentence

unlucky

adjective

• He thinks it's unlucky to have a black cat cross your path.
• She was unlucky enough to get a flat tire on the way to her job interview.
• Some people think that 13 is an unlucky number.
• There are the winners but mostly the losers, the lucky and the unlucky.
  — Vogue, 27 Oct. 2022
• The unlucky ones get tossed on doorsteps, rained on and thrown away.
  — Rachel Abrams, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• When the club reach their next final, Moura can be one of the first names on the team sheet, not the unlucky one to miss out.
  — Robert Kidd, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
• But on the third day of the mission - April 13, that unlucky number again - Mrs. Lovell's phone rang.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
• To these unlucky souls, add the people locked up in our prisons and jails.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• Benítez is one of the unlucky people dealing with both.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
• The hill is the bane of any driver unlucky enough to be directed to the street by a driving app.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2022
• The number 13 doesn't have to be unlucky (just ask Taylor Swift!).
  — Diane J. Cho, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
• As the Ravens and their fans are all too aware, one unlucky play can doom a player’s season.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 10 Sep. 2023
• But not all is wedded bliss for the often unlucky-in-love cast.
  — NBC News, 8 Aug. 2021
• There's also an unlucky but adorable tote bag idea to fill with treats and send home with your guests.
  — Taylor Murphy, House Beautiful, 8 June 2023
• But the Ravens have yet to lay down before the obstacles thrown their way in an unlucky 2021.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 24 Dec. 2021
• And those unlucky enough to fail to find the clandestine bugs still receive a collectible.
  — Ben Weiss, Fortune Crypto, 24 Mar. 2023
• Those murders—of the actress Sharon Tate, three of her friends, and an unlucky stranger—took place 50 years ago this summer.
  — Cari Beauchamp, Town & Country, 9 Aug. 2021
• Kind of been unlucky with an injury here or there or something along those lines.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 9 Oct. 2021
• Who knows, perhaps the spider, if unlucky, is a host for wasp larvae.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• But this lack of turnovers wasn’t simply a matter of being unlucky, Woods said.
  — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2021
• The boa uses its muscles to move its prey down the length of its body to the stomach, where the unlucky varmint is digested over the next four to six days.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2022
• The offense was unlucky at times, but the Ravens and Lamar Jackson left points on the board with poor execution.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 20 Nov. 2022
• The stakes are much higher for the unlucky few who suffered pregnancy loss.
  — al, 1 Sep. 2022
• From a macro perspective, that suggests that the team has the talent to compete with most squads and may have just been unlucky.
  — Tony East, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• Baseball, depending on which side of the final score a team is on, can favor the lucky and punish the unlucky.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 11 June 2023
• Who wants to venture back to ground zero after taking one unlucky break in the middle of a great run?
  — Vulture, 2 Oct. 2023
• Anyone who is unlucky on that first bet will receive a full refund in bonus bets.
  — cleveland, 5 Feb. 2023
• This is a city that was unlucky to be located near the Russian border.
  — Vogue, 9 Mar. 2022
• Was Sunday night's fourth inning more or less unlucky than that?
  — James Yasko, Chron, 11 Oct. 2021
• The unlucky trend was repetitive in the years that followed; however, Allen isn't phased by it.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024