How to Use lucky in a Sentence
lucky
adjective- I feel lucky to be alive.
- He scored a goal on a lucky shot.
- I count myself lucky to know you.
- We're lucky that things turned out as well as they did.
- The lucky winner will be given a brand new car.
- I know you'll enjoy the show if you're lucky enough to get a ticket.
- Tickets were available only for the lucky few.
- Their meeting was a lucky accident.
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Clark, 53, was one of the lucky ones in the last shutdown.
— Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023 -
And that’s how all the teams lived, though not so much the lucky ones from Moscow.
— Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024 -
The rest of the junk-food economy might not be so lucky.
— Robert Goulder, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023 -
The Cowboys would be lucky to get off that cheap with Lamb.
— Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 14 June 2023 -
And Matthew, their three children, and the legendary Ma Mac get to be the lucky guinea pigs.
— Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024 -
But to get gold, Larsen added, Fisher will have to be lucky.
— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024 -
Thanks to Tinashe, some lucky people won't have to pay rent this month.
— Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024 -
For his part, Tarasenko feels lucky to be a Panther, too.
— David Wilson, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024 -
But then the conditions changed, a final break held and the flames stalled — lucky.
— David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023 -
The lucky winner matched all five white balls in the Feb. 10 drawing, results show.
— Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024 -
Oregon won’t be so lucky; abundant clouds and some rain could steal the show.
— Mary Gilbert, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023 -
The lucky player’s ticket matched all five white balls to win big.
— Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024 -
Yet the lucky fans who were there wouldn’t have traded the experience for the world.
— Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2024 -
What happened to Stephen and the gymnastic team was not a fluke or a lucky break.
— Patsy Neal, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024 -
The lucky ones who did nab the coupons have until July 3 to redeem them.
— Cheryl V. Jackson, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024 -
Its follow-up, about the 2012 election, wasn’t so lucky.
— Alexander Sorondo, Vox, 31 July 2024 -
But the music itself is good, and then the projection of it was so lucky.
— Patrick Lyons, Spin, 15 Sep. 2023 -
The show will culminate with one lucky Barbie fan winning the chance to stay in the home.
— Jennifer Maas, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023 -
Everyone should be so lucky to have a friend like that.
— Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023 -
Her constituents are lucky to have her fighting for them.
— Rachel Treisman, NPR, 8 May 2024 -
Almost a month ago, a lucky California player won a $44.3 million Powerball jackpot in August, the lottery announced.
— Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024 -
That potential gets majorly amplified as Venus embraces lucky Jupiter in your 10th House of Business, showing you the best track toward a very lucrative finish line.
— Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2024
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