How To Use ill luck In A Sentence
- There was an element of ill luck, but every so often, as gamblers would tell us, long odds do come off.
- Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
- To cap Flanagan's misfortune, he punctured with 15 miles to go and there was an immediate charge from the front of his bunch, capitalising on his ill luck.
- And when you consider that a lot of them, through ill looks and ill luck, are foredoomed old maids and are foredoomed to teach all their lives, you can see how they cut down the period of teaching of the marriageable ones. CHAPTER II
- This clearly implies, my correspondent asserts, that there is only one wheelchair available for use for every five passengers who have had the ill luck to be stood on.
- The violin, however, weak of voice as it is, always carries the day, and the other instruments steal discontentedly back to their secondary places, the snuffy old violone keeping up a constant growl at its ill luck, and the trombone now and then leaping out like a tiger on its prey. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
- And, still in the long-run --- say, the next two or three decades (the maximum beyond which any half-way reasonable projecting is impossible, what with the speed of change these days and the uncertainties surrounding China's political stability and future) --- China will lucky to be much more advanced technologically than Taiwan or South Korea today. China Menace?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
- Just then, as ill luck would have it, came in the Winchelsea man-of-war, by way of visit, which put the marooners into such a surprise that they set fire to the ship and sloop and fled ashore to the woods.
- Speak little of your ill luck and boast not of your good luck.
