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    Use "bad luck" in a sentence

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    bad luck


    1. Nothing like my poor old Will all his bad luck


    2. A circumstance for which I envy them heartily … I am trying to be positive but although logic tells me that the likelihood of me being in that state is remote, my record for bad luck so far is not comforting


    3. The 13th was a Friday … obviously not bad luck for Bunty! So it is conceivable that if she went for an interview on the Friday she might just have started work on the following Monday which would be the 16th


    4. Sorry you've had bad luck


    5. It had been Chrissie’s bad luck to be in the way on that particular night and she had received a mouthful of foul language from the prima donna as a result


    6. on the road,” Fred suggested sadly, “Just bad luck


    7. It was just bad luck that he toppled from the platform and


    8. The fact that you were stabbed at all was simply sheer bad luck


    9. There had been so few sunny days since coming to Skyrim, she wondered if the gloomy weather was typical for the province or if she simply had had bad luck


    10. My patron Aetes believes that females are bad luck at sea

    11. It is fruitful for us to acknowledge that life is not a series of random occurrences, with a little sprinkle of good luck and bad luck thrown in for diversity


    12. Getting hit by that comet was pretty bad luck


    13. He did this in spite of the fact that sailors are a superstitious lot, and normally will refuse to sail with a corpse, as it portends bad luck


    14. Had I ever thought to question that? But it was also his lack of bad luck: never was there any meaningless happenstance – always in the right place at the right time, coincidence always being advantageous even if not immediately


    15. Even the ‘bad luck’ experiment had less of an impact on a person's wellbeing


    16. Another cadet had the bad luck to have a fly land on his pillow during an inspection which meant that we were all “f communists and horribly filthy people of uncertain parentage, breeders flies and other vermin, but not to f worry because our filthy habits will be cured in short order time by Sergeant van der Merwe, by the grace of General Coetzee blah blah blah


    17. When my turn came, I had the exceedingly bad luck of having the RSM as my barber


    18. Due to gathering storm clouds, or just bad luck, little foot traffic harried the street


    19. At the Riot Course I had the exceedingly bad luck to be in Charlie Camp which I still hate for we were treated unfairly and had a horrible time


    20. Superficially everything was very orderly in South Africa, and unless you had the bad luck to be in the middle of a protest march, the average man on the street had no real information of the scope of the uprising for it was suppressed

    21. As bad luck would have it, one got through and burned the handler quite badly


    22. An individual encumbered by circumstance(s) or events seemingly beyond his or her control, may perhaps attribute such misfortunes to bad luck or ―assignable‖ causes although that individual may (otherwise) lack the (necessary) predicates to properly manage his or her life in a manner that might (otherwise) improve his or her (material) standing, not to mention spiritual well-being


    23. It is sheer bad luck for the terrorist if his spoor is found and as a method of hunting terrorists it is hit or miss


    24. “If it wasn’t for bad luck; that guy wouldn’t have no luck at all


    25. Unfortunately he had the bad luck to come here when there is great resentment against France in this country


    26. By nothing more than simple bad luck, it befell me to be the one to have to meet with him after a questioning, to keep our office abreast of the latest intelligence


    27. Carter had the bad luck to have the hostage crisis begin when there was a slow news cycle and a media, in the years after Watergate, dedicated to proving how critical they could be of presidents


    28. Bad luck! He had wanted to slip into the booth relatively unnoticed, and most definitely did not want to be greeted by Gordon jumping to his feet and coming to him, calling out in a loud voice: “Sinclair! John Sinclair, what a coincidence to run into you! I really wish I had time to chat, but unfortunately, I’m meeting someone in a few minutes


    29. But it turned out it was bad luck, because if we hadn't seen the Bully Creek Reservoir site, we would have stopped at a dreary, depressing private campground a few miles further on


    30. It was just bad luck that the war intervened

    31. “He said he’s having bad luck lately and owes me a favor – crazy stuff that goes back to the war, it’s a long story – look, we have to get out of here


    32. They had simply been unlucky and with a bitter smile to himself, Ethan thought that this whole sordid affair reeked of bad luck


    33. “So how come the slave, the one who is being constantly beaten down and trodden - the one who’s been conditioned to a life of misery,poverty and bad luck out here in the southeast - how the fuck does he chin-up and gives everyone the finger?”


    34. For example, a person suffers a serious setback, and then someone remarks, "How unfortunate; what bad luck; it must be their karma"


    35. they start to read some mantra that places bad luck on to BUTA’s


    36. but they will sure to inherit abundance of bad luck


    37. will have bad luck in his relationship, bullied by his wife or his coworkers


    38. repeat it with faith and devotion, your bad luck is bound to turn


    39. I am in this hopeless situation, and I have achieved nothing, because of society and bad luck and everyone and everything around me


    40. speculated that Bruce held Steinhauser as a shield, adding it's possible that bad luck

    41. Consequently, if I could attract bad luck, then surely I could un-attract it


    42. cats do not bring bad luck, that every living being has a feeling for pain, that every stray


    43. time it was considered bad luck to go in there


    44. Her message was simple: she had bad luck in


    45. I was shocked at our bad luck


    46. maintained his innocence and that he merely took advantage of the bad luck of a truck


    47. Yesterday I had bad luck because my dog ran away


    48. Other times it was just bad luck:


    49. I had already told her the story of the cop pulling me over and all that stuff and she was like man, that's some bad luck! She liked me


    50. With nothing better to do, he took out his anger over their bad luck on the one














































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    Synonyms for "bad luck"

    fortune happening crash pile-up wreck accident collision