How to Use lucky in a Sentence

lucky

adjective

• I feel lucky to be alive.
• He scored a goal on a lucky shot.
• I count myself lucky to know you.
• We're lucky that things turned out as well as they did.
• The lucky winner will be given a brand new car.
• I know you'll enjoy the show if you're lucky enough to get a ticket.
• Tickets were available only for the lucky few.
• Their meeting was a lucky accident.
• Clark, 53, was one of the lucky ones in the last shutdown.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• The man was lucky to get one pitch to hit per at-bat, if that.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
• There are the winners but mostly the losers, the lucky and the unlucky.
  — Vogue, 27 Oct. 2022
• Tony wasn’t hurt, but one of his friends wasn’t so lucky.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022
• And that’s how all the teams lived, though not so much the lucky ones from Moscow.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
• The crime film will be lucky to even crack the top five in its debut.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 22 Mar. 2025
• One of the most lethal forms of cancer, how on earth was that lucky?
  — Eric Idle, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
• The rest of the junk-food economy might not be so lucky.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Salaries have not caught up, for those lucky enough to still have jobs.
  — Suzan Haidamous, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• The Cowboys would be lucky to get off that cheap with Lamb.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• So lucky to be able to make as many seasons of this show.
  — Bonnie Marcus, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• London and the rest of the UK might not be so lucky come winter.
  — Sommer Saadi, Bloomberg.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• And Matthew, their three children, and the legendary Ma Mac get to be the lucky guinea pigs.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024
• The shortest straw wins Lizzie — and Kezzie is the lucky winner.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 25 Apr. 2022
• His best friend, Johnny, a Black boy from the wrong side of the tracks, is not so lucky.
  — Steve Chagollan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• But the people who deleted the app haven’t been so lucky.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
• At the time of the deal, Ballard admitted the team got lucky.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2022
• But to get gold, Larsen added, Fisher will have to be lucky.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• Thanks to Tinashe, some lucky people won't have to pay rent this month.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
• Not lucky enough that it’s been with someone where it’s worked out at the right time.
  — Kate Storey, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
• Just the most incredible project I was obsessed with and was so lucky to get picked.
  — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
• Gabriel isn’t so lucky and dies after unfurling his parachute and cracking his head on the rudder.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 May 2025