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.
• Clark, 53, was one of the lucky ones in the last shutdown.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• There are the winners but mostly the losers, the lucky and the unlucky.
  — Vogue, 27 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Salaries have not caught up, for those lucky enough to still have jobs.
  — Suzan Haidamous, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• 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
• His best friend, Johnny, a Black boy from the wrong side of the tracks, is not so lucky.
  — Steve Chagollan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• At the time of the deal, Ballard admitted the team got lucky.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Most of her players, even the tallest at 5-8, were lucky to get their forearms above the net.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2022
• 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
• America would be lucky to have that kind of sane choice.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 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 ticket matched four of the five numbers along with the Powerball, but did not have the Power Play.
  — Blaine Callahan, Hartford Courant, 26 Dec. 2024
• There’s nothing to do but to feel lucky and in awe and privileged to get to be here with Harrison at this moment in his life and career.
  — Jim Halterman, Variety, 24 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025