How to Use hard-luck in a Sentence

hard-luck

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• Slot bemoaned the fine margins but there have been far too many hard-luck stories.
  — James Pearce, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
• There’s some dark subject matter, and some hard-luck people on the fringes.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• Leiter took a hard-luck loss for his gem as the Yankees wrapped up the title.
  — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
• Burford has stepped in nicely for hard-luck left guard Ben Bartch.
  — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
• Not after just two injury-riddled, hard-luck seasons.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
• Mikolas suffered a hard-luck setback in his lone meeting with Milwaukee this season.
  — Field Level Media, Reuters, 14 Sep. 2025
• There’s more than enough time for Stroud to rebound, while Daniels just needs to stay healthy after a hard-luck 2025 season.
  — Jeff Howe, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
• The latter more than held his own, though, allowing four hits and three runs across 6 2/3 innings before leaving as the hard-luck loser.
  — Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
• Pratt offers no prototypical hard-luck origin story.
  — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
• Both her audition and her callback had fallen flat, but the company must have figured that casting an amateur from hard-luck Butte as Lucetta would make good press.
  — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• The sudden ascent to stardom of freshman Alijah Arenas has injected new hope into a hard-luck season.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
• For Coronado, the hard-luck loser was freshman Quinn Smock, who pitched six innings, allowed one unearned run on three hits and struck out seven.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
• And, of course, there won’t be many people who want to defend someone in that position — or, indeed, listen to any hard-luck stories — now the details have been outlined in court about his motorway rampage.
  — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
• Caleb’s reputation Until now, Caleb has enjoyed a reputation as a hard-luck farmboy who was led on by Kenzie and never got a fair shake in the villa.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2026
• The Oilers went back to Connor Ingram in goal after a hard-luck overtime loss for Tristan Jarry in Game 4.
  — Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 29 Apr. 2026
• Whether Rochdale are destined to join the list of hard-luck stories among the National League runners-up who fail to go up despite finishing well clear of the field, only the next couple of weeks will tell.
  — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• Fox closed with four birdies over his last six holes — and one bogey that felt equally important — for a 2-under 68 and a one-shot victory over hard-luck Cameron Young for his first major title.
  — Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
• The hard-luck righty is 0-8 in 12 starts since June 12, in part because the Orioles have provided him only 15 runs of support in those dozen outings.
  — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
• Alex Wang was the hard-luck loser for Cistercian (3-13, 0-6) going 7 innings scattering 3 hits with an unearned run, 2 strikeouts and one walk.
  — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2026
• All the usual fun Indy stuff is here – Nazis, treasured artifacts – though the bantering chemistry between Ford's hard-luck hero and Sean Connery as his grumpy dad is off-the-hook spectacular.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 June 2026
• After Yankees relievers got the Twins to ground into inning-ending double plays in the 9th, 10th and 12th innings, John Schreiber (2-4) took the hard-luck loss.
  — CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
• Every small room sans closet in New York City requires a stand-alone alternative for surviving a hard-luck storage situation, and even ample hallways can benefit from a dignified wardrobe cabinet as a way to punctuate large spaces.
  — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2026
• The two formerly hard-luck performers, each previously divorced with children, blended their families and achieved enough professional success to open for Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder in Milwaukee.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
• But nothing will change the chance that he was denied to celebrate with Team USA in the 2026 Olympics, or the parallels to one of the most famous hard-luck cases in sports history, Ralph Cox.
  — Mac Engel april 21, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2026
• McConaughey plays hard-luck bus driver Kevin McKay, who's responsible for getting more than 20 kids and their teacher (America Ferrera) home while also worrying about his teenage son Sean.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025