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How to use unlucky in a sentence

30 example sentences · adjective

Unlucky means unfortunate, marked by misfortune. Example: “The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home.”

Examples of unlucky by meaning

adjectiveUnfortunate, marked by misfortune.

  • The unluckiest man that ever lived."1936, Andrew Barton ("Banjo") Paterson, The Shearer′s Colt
  • Her unluckier daughter and great-granddaughter have been tarred by amour's sloppy brush; but Mrs.1999 February 14, Liesl Schillinger, “The Lost Art of the Love Affair”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021
  • For those unlucky enough to be on a service without lavatory provision, we can only speculate as to how passengers improvised if caught short.2020 January 2, Dr Mike Esbester, “Waste disposal...”, in Rail, page 36

adjectiveBringing ill luck.

  • Country like Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar, people who follows Hindu religion, they consider the numbers 0, 1, 8, 10, 12, 19 and 28 as unlucky numbers, bad luck or evil spirits etc.2020 August, Rajendra Kunwar, “MATHEMATICS PHOBIA: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME”, in International Journal of Creative Research...

More sentences with unlucky

  • The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home.From the entry hassle
  • He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.From the entry traverse
  • It is unlucky to walk widdershins around a church.From the entry widdershins
  • I know what it's like to feel unlucky and that the world is against me. Trust me, I've been there.From the entry been there
  • They say the number 13 is unlucky.From the entry they say
  • You should cover your mouth when you cough so you don't spray spittle all over an unlucky coughee.From the entry coughee
  • Worse for arguably the league’s unluckiest fan base, the Lions haven’t really been competitive.2022 February 12, Harry Enten, “Cincinnati Bengals vs. Los Angeles Rams: The unluckiest sports teams and other Super Bowl musings”, in…. From the entry arguably
  • Players will often exploit this by wallbanging to eliminate unlucky targets.(Can we date this quote?), Bullet Penetration, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2019. From the entry wallbang
  • Superstitious sailors regarded a clergyman as an unlucky shipmate, a Jonah whose presence would never be welcome.2008, Richard Blake, Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815: Blue Lights & Psalm-singers. From the entry Jonah
  • Her low point came when she was the unlucky recipient of a “Stink Face” administered by Rikishi.2001, Floyd Conner, Wrestling's Most Wanted. From the entry Stink Face
  • When Amphitryon came to Thebes he found that another curse had descended on that unlucky city.1961, Green, Roger Lancelyn, Heroes of Greece and Troy, retold from the ancient authors, →OCLC. From the entry Teumessian fox
  • I thought I might be unlucky for them, because the spirits took away my medicine bag.1952, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Unbeliever; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 35. From the entry medicine bag
  • Port was circulated deasil; to send it round widdershins was extremely unlucky.1946, Herbert McKay, The World of Numbers, Cambridge University Press, →OL, page 42. From the entry deasil
  • Sometimes the name is changed because it is thought to be unlucky.1908, Ernest Young, “Chapter 4 The children”, in Peeps at Many Lands: Siam, London: Adam and Charles Black, page 16. From the entry chance
  • For the better, if you ask the seven unlucky sods who originally died, and are now explosively alive.2023 September 14, HarryBlank, “The Breach Goes On: Wrong Tomorrow Hub”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2024. From the entry transmogrify
  • If you're unlucky, you have one of those clients who wants MEGA menus with a hierarchy of menus with many links.2016, Kelt Dockins, Design Patterns in PHP and Laravel, page 72. From the entry mega menu
  • A combination of one lucky flop, one unlucky river, and your aggressive projection of image has improved your situation considerably.2002, John Vorhaus, Killer Poker: Strategy and Tactics for Winning Poker Play, New York, N.Y.: Lyle Stuart/Kensington Publishing Corp.…. From the entry worsify
  • These particles are miserable, unlike the happy chuntey and will try to harm unlucky chuntey particles as they hurtle past.2001, Adam Short, “I could do with some help here - networks and stuff”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet). From the entry chuntey
  • Karol now is trying to recruit another sidehacker since Bev's unlucky spill in which she broke her right shoulder.1972 06, Lois Gutzwiller, “Motor Maids”, in American Motorcyclist, page 46. From the entry sidehacking
  • Hertz is an early contender for Wall Street’s schlimazel of the decade, the big unlucky lemon that just can’t seem to get anything right.2024 May 16, “Who Wants 30,000 Used Teslas?”, in Intelligencer, retrieved 16 May 2024. From the entry schlimazel
  • Like mad-dog in the hottest day Byron runs snapping strait away, And those unlucky fellows judge ill Who go without a whip or cudgel.2013, J. B. Sidgwick, The Shorter Poems of Walter Savage Landor, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry mad-dog
  • In this case you're unlucky enough to be driving through a neighborhood beset by deceptive appearances, but this misluck is corrected by your just.2007, Robert C. Roberts, W. Jay Wood, Intellectual Virtues. From the entry misluck
  • It is possible to trace our right-handedness to the perception of deasil as the normal direction, and widdershins as abnormal, topsy-turvy, unlucky.1946, Herbert McKay, The World of Numbers, Cambridge University Press, →OL, page 42. From the entry deasil
  • Yet this spectator can consider himself unlucky, and not just because the sharp-eared security somehow heard his "baldist" abuse above the cacophonous thumping from the now omnipresent "fan activation" speakers.2019 Richard Hinds, "AFL's stance on crowd behaviour and umpire abuse leaves fans confused", ABC News Australia (June 15, 2019). From the entry baldist
  • Closely parallel to the belief in unlucky days was the notion of climacteric years, those periodic dates in a man's life which were potential turning-points in his health and fortune.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 596. From the entry climacteric
  • There are all kinds of game in the valley, and you are unlucky if you do not see a giraffe or an ostrich, or at least a herd of buck.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 265-266. From the entry buck

Meaning of unlucky

  1. adjective Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
  2. adjective Inauspicious.
  3. adjective Having ill luck.

Full definition of unlucky

Questions about unlucky in a sentence

How do you use unlucky in a sentence?
Unlucky is used as an adjective. For example: “The unlucky boy was hassled by a gang of troublemakers on his way home.”
What is a short sentence with unlucky?
“The unluckiest man that ever lived."”
What does unlucky mean?
Unlucky means unfortunate, marked by misfortune.

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