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
  • Read Next National What are the luckiest states to play Powerball?
    Don Sweeney, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 June 2025
  • Alcaraz wore his lucky black and white top from the French Open in temperatures that challenged the Balearic Islands for blistering heat if not beaches.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025

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