(n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) As luck would have it, the outgoing Bartlet and his successor, Matt Santos, are currently dealing with a foreign crisis, too.
(2) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(3) Obama will meet with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow as well, but US envoy George Mitchell has had no luck in recent weeks trying to persuade Netanyahu to compromise on the settlements.
(4) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(5) I thought we rode our luck in the first 20 minutes here.
(6) Good luck, rather than good genes, may be the key reason why some people are protected from certain cancers while others develop the disease, according to a new study.
(7) I wish he and Rosemary all the luck in the world...They should know there is much to enjoy in life even if you have been forced out because of circumstances.
(8) He said his longevity in the face of multiple drug abuse over decades was just luck, and advised others not to follow his lead.
(9) His previous strokes of luck include being appointed chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority, the highest-paid quango boss in the UK, and being knighted for "services to regeneration" despite not being a Time Lord.
(10) Seth Smith makes the final out of the A's season, which is a good luck charm for the Boston Red Sox, as Smith made the final out for the Colorado Rockies in the 2007 World Series that Boston won.
(11) Thom Majka, a sales rep who keeps his Indians cap on through every game for good luck, said: “These fans couldn’t care less about the election.
(12) Hugh Pennington, a microbiology expert, said on Saturday that luck will play a role in Cafferkey’s survival chances because experts still do not know enough about the virus.
(13) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
(14) So a striker needs also a bit of luck and then the confidence is higher but he’s self-confident so I expect he shall score and maybe against Chelsea .” So far Van Persie has remained injury free, which is a fillip after previously admitting to managing persistent issues for years.
(15) If the Spaniard’s bad luck in hitting a post was expected, the sight of Stambouli, a lumbering figure in the first 45 minutes, confidently sweeping home the rebound certainly prompted a double take.
(16) So tough luck for my friend Jennifer, who wanted to take an HND in plastering and brickwork.
(17) Good luck telling your manager you fancy a day off.
(18) Photograph: Alamy You’ll hear the traditional dance music pulsing out everywhere from dark bars, and seeing it involves decisions or luck.
(19) You'll find this helpful: How to get into media Best of luck!
(20) If that was a stroke of luck Everton were even luckier in the second half, when Joe Allen made his contribution to derby folklore with what may well be the miss of the season.
Luckless
Definition:
(a.) Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know a little about the jellyfishes of Australia because when I worked there for the Guardian, poisonous species such as the box jellyfish would occasionally kill a luckless swimmer off the tropical north coast.
(2) Craig is quite winning as the intense, luckless and perhaps in some ways wicked Hughes: Paltrow is Paltrow.
(3) That was the striker’s 11th league goal of a season that he began with a long luckless streak.
(4) !” A female singer who overdid the sexiness was automatically a “foxtress”, and a rock star who overplayed the social conscience bit – usually the luckless Weller again – was addressing “ver kidz”.
(5) Jovetic's luckless run with injuries has badly disrupted his first season in English football but here was the evidence that the £22.9m signing from Fiorentina can still play a considerable part.
(6) Carrick is elegant enough to fit into Spain’s midfield but his luckless run of injuries continues.
(7) There's a chihuahua scowling in a cape, a golden retriever Fenton-ing after a luckless terrier and a lurcher that looks like a retired academic.
(8) But that is not the good fortune of the luckless children of that benighted city.
(9) If it can sometimes seem that Polanski's sadism towards his characters is being pursued for its own amusement and in isolation from their mistreatment at the hands of their fellow man – at one point, Trelkovsky steps in dog shit, just as other characters walk into doors – then this is because he likes to show the world conspiring against the luckless.
(10) The revolution certainly has not taken off as people might have anticipated but City should feel better for this victory even if it was tempered by another terrible blow for the luckless Ilkay Gündogan.
(11) National statutes, UN protocols and who knows how many luckless souls bolted up in cells round the world affirm that the old prohibitionist order has not collapsed.
(12) This is what it looks like when processes are changed in a panic: not just a bunch of arrogant scofflaws, astonished to find society finally standing up to them; but also a luckless brigade, dealt yet more terrible luck, serving more time on remand than they would ever normally be sentenced to on conviction.
(13) Billed as Disney's revisionist version of Sleeping Beauty, this live action spectacular features Angelina Jolie as the "mistress of all evil" and Elle Fanning as luckless Princess Aurora.
(14) His love of football came in handy for Another Sunday And Sweet FA (1972), an unruly clash between rival local teams as experienced by the luckless referee.
(15) Hugo's story of injustice has been filmed several times in the US and the story of Javert pursuing the luckless Valjean has been recreated in several forms in American settings, most famously in the long-running TV series The Fugitive and the big-screen version starring Harrison Ford.
(16) But behind the bold words lay the wreckage of her recently, incorrigibly luckless life: the apparent suicide of her lover Michael Hutchence in a Sydney hotel room, the revelation that former Opportunity Knocks presenter Hughie Green was her father, a vicious and protracted custody battle with her ex-husband Bob Geldof.
(17) Ali takes care of his two canaries (replacements for the luckless cockatiel), or walks in the forest with his uncle.
(18) Meanwhile, another company was involved in sourcing workers for CPUK, scouting around the country for unemployed people so luckless that standing underneath London Bridge at 3am was considered better for their morale than being asleep.
(19) The forward had been industrious but largely luckless up to this point and his hat-trick was reward for months of endeavour and, potentially, a springboard to another prolific run.
(20) In Shanghai, meanwhile, the luckless citizens who chose to invest their hard-earned cash in shares are learning the hard lesson – often forgotten even by the world’s most seasoned investors – that markets can go down as well as up.