How to Use for luck in a Sentence

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• Friday the 13th: a bad day for luck, but a good day for cheap tattoos.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 13 May 2022
• Yellow is for luck, red is for love and white undies bring peace.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 25 Oct. 2022
• Oh, and one more for luck: The new wallpapers look cool, too.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• James believed, instead, in the concept of fors, the Latin word for luck or chance.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2022
• My parents wished so fervently for luck in the New Year.
  — Lan Samantha Chang, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2023
• Ah—your agency comes in the almost-passive search for luck.
  — Wired, 9 Aug. 2022
• Many in Italy and Spain might agree: On December 31, believers slip on red undies for luck and love in the year ahead.
  — Vanessa Hua, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
• An old-timer had told him that deer sightings bode well and so my father watched and waited, hoping for luck and chance.
  — Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• An old-timer had told him that deer sightings bode well and so my father watched and waited, hoping for luck and chance.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
• People have been lining up to take selfies with it, and to rub its testicles for luck.
  — Valeria Ricciulli, Curbed, 20 Nov. 2021
• The mother sits at the computer desk, wearing her ruby bracelet for luck.
  — Rebecca Curtis, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• Pulling the turkey's wishbone for luck after a meal is a tradition that began in ancient Italy.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
• Herman Quintero was cracking jokes about the lottery, touching just below his right eye for luck.
  — Ambar Castillo, STAT, 24 Mar. 2023
• The Chinese word for orange closely resembles the words for luck and wealth, making the fruit a popular Lunar New Year gift.
  — Samantha Nelson, chicagotribune.com, 31 Jan. 2022
• This can’t be boiled down to cultural proclivity for luck.
  — Jenny Wu, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• The holiday, which starts this year on Sunday, Jan. 22, is full of symbolic foods: dumplings for wealth, whole chicken for luck, noodles for longevity.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2023
• The temple maintains a series of shelving units to hold the thousands of maneki neko that visitors have bought, scribbled their names and wishes on and left behind for luck.
  — Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Crowds hover perilously close to their hooves to stroke the horses’ hearts for luck, or applaud wildly as the aristocratic jockeys ride them dashingly in and out of palaces.
  — James Collard, Robb Report, 25 July 2021
• The holiday, which is celebrated across multiple countries in east Asia, is about welcoming a new year with hopes for luck and prosperity Out with the old, in with the new!
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2023
• Photos this week showed many students visiting temples to light incense and pray for good results, with some teachers distributing zongzi, or rice dumplings, for luck.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 7 June 2023
• Spread all the luck, prosperity and smiles this year with these cute Lunar New Year cookies — each is hand decorated with red icing for luck and yellow icing for heroism.
  — Jacorey Moon, Good Housekeeping, 20 Jan. 2023
• Competitors and onlookers bet on the outcomes, often invoking Macuilxochitl, god of games, for luck.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2020
• Different types of prayer flag ripple everywhere across the landscape like so many ancient antecedents of Christo’s Gates: some white, for the deceased, arranged vertically; others, for luck and health, multicolored and hung horizontally.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 8 June 2023

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024