How to Use bad luck in a Sentence

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• For starters, the groom is working on the big day; is that bad luck?
  — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 6 May 2025
• And there might be a touch of bad luck in the misery so far this year.
  — Joe Murphy, NBC news, 6 May 2025
• People get sick, lose their jobs or just plain run into bad luck.
  — Chi Chi Wu, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2025
• In the past, this has normally been chalked up to good/bad luck.
  — Mat Issa, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• And the injuries can, at least partly, be chalked up to bad luck.
  — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• Rodriguez’s setbacks can be chalked up, in part, to bad luck.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2026
• In some cultures, they were feared as omens of bad luck or even linked to witchcraft.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
• Most people plan around the food and the guest list and figure pests are just bad luck.
  — Sharon Wu, USA Today, 4 July 2026
• But why does your bad luck always plunk you in a long interval?
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
• Still, the poor results cannot be fully written off as bad luck.
  — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
• Some bad luck and worse mistakes cost them against Pittsburgh.
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
• Seems like bad luck has struck the farm this Friday the 13th.
  — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 13 June 2025
• That middle-of-the-night jolt awake is not anxiety or bad luck.
  — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2026
• Money woes will slowly leave you, as will that cloying streak of bad luck.
  — Snehaa Khanna Sahgal, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
• Why do the 49ers have such bad luck with drafting receivers?
  — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
• Myths, legends and horror films have turned it into an omen of bad luck.
  — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
• Yes, our indomitable city blonde has held onto some of her historic bad luck.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
• To counteract bad luck, toss a pinch over your left shoulder.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 13 Mar. 2026
• But there are some outliers who get hit far too often to explain it through bad luck.
  — Matt Martell, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• But a run of bad luck derailed those dreams, sending him to look for work overseas.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• The worst part, perhaps, is the feeling that your own bad luck is rubbing off on your team.
  — Tyler Foggatt, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
• It is said to be bad luck to celebrate even numbers in Italy.
  — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 27 Feb. 2026
• It was supposed to be my bad luck; Why bring my mother into it?
  — Hazlitt, 11 July 2023
• The problem may be human error or bad luck, not a vengeful god.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 July 2026
• There are also functions that block access to things because of your bad luck.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 26 Dec. 2024
• The aim is to rid your home of any bad luck that’s accumulated over the past year.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
• His offensive production is down, but some of that can be chalked up to bad luck.
  — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
• This isn’t the result of bad luck or global forces beyond our control.
  — Ana María Archila, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
• In some Chinese cultures, wearing red socks is a way to ward off bad luck.
  — Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2023
• It’s been said that walking under a ladder or seeing a black cat can bring bad luck.
  — Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2024