How to Use luck in a Sentence

luck

1 of 2 noun

• We need a bit of luck.
• I've had no luck in finding a new apartment.
• By a stroke of luck, there were still a few tickets left when we arrived.
• We had good luck fishing.
• He succeeded through hard work and a little luck.
• He's been having nothing but bad luck.
• He had no better luck than I did.
• For the Bears, QB luck tends to range from bad to putrid.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• Geller's friends called for the dog but had no luck finding him.
  — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• Surely the use of dice makes the game too much about luck, some suggest.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• There have been a lot of bits of luck along the way but a lot of it has been about sticking at it.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
• So some of the gap between the teams could be attributed to luck.
  — Matt Martell, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Other areas of the state might not have as much luck viewing the eclipse.
  — Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
• The stroke of luck gave the Rangers three consecutive years of picks in the first five overall.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
• Dodd's team has tried the usual tricks to reset things — with no luck.
  — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
• Their town of Flint, Michigan, has been down on its luck their whole lives.
  — Ellen Piligian, Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
• By a stroke of luck, no one was sitting in the window and middle seat.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 28 Jan. 2024
• If the key to a long life — along with good genes and lots of luck — is to keep moving, Pete Teti is on the right trail.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• There’s a healthy element of luck — just look at the title.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• Julio Rodríguez and Jorge Polanco tried their luck swinging but to the same end.
  — Noah Furtado, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• Select sizes of the Schutz and Amazon pairs are on sale, so try your luck below.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 6 Oct. 2023
• Cohen seems to think that all the hassle is worth testing his luck.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023
• Whoever ends up with their egg intact is said to have luck for the year.
  — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
• Leonard’s luck took a turn Feb. 15, when a new owner decided to take a chance on him.
  — Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
• Even then, the sailors were found only by luck, from a passing cargo ship.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 22 June 2023
• With any luck, some Republicans will get their first inkling of the avalanche of lies Trump has told.
  — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
• Many had tried their luck in a city and then returned to what was more familiar.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
• Nearly 30 years ago the neighborhood was down on its luck.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2023
• With any luck, in a decade, this mountain basin will be rewilded.
  — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• For the most part, the game flow — either by design or sheer luck — worked out really well.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 18 May 2023

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luck

2 of 2 verb

• Maybe some or all of the leagues will luck out and keep enough players healthy.
  — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 25 June 2020
• Yes, the Wolves could luck out in the lottery and still finish with a top-three pick.
  — Star Tribune, 1 May 2021
• Warren in many ways lucked out in drawing the first night.
  — Vera Bergengruen / Miami, Time, 26 June 2019
• In short, WannaCrypt's creators were lazy, and the world lucked out.
  — Alexander Urbelis, CNN, 14 May 2017
• The red team lucked out, though, because the blue team completely fell apart.
  — Tracy Swartz, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2018
• Tough Break: Robertson and a friend had lucked into a school of giant walleyes.
  — Doug Olander, Field & Stream, 21 May 2020
• There are no easy games and no one lucks into winning the Super Bowl.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• It’s early, but the Tigers haven’t been lucking into their wins.
  — Molly Geary, SI.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• The Bears lucked into Mack because the Raiders felt backed into a corner.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• The first factor is obvious: The Lakers lucked into the No.
  — Kyle Goon, Orange County Register, 6 June 2019
• Some parents lucked out by picking up the in-demand items months ago.
  — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2017
• Willa Drake lucked out with her dad, Melvin, a gentle high school teacher.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
• Yes, the best-case scenario is for the Dolphins, picking 22nd and sometime in the 10 p.m. hour, to luck out for the second time in as many years.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 26 Apr. 2017
• So the people who wow us their first time out are unicorns, who luck into a great role and nail it.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
• Ken Crawley lucked out in the first quarter when Kaelin Clay dropped a touchdown pass on third down.
  — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• The Bucks lucked or skillfully jockeyed (take your pick) their way into the No.
  — Gary D'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2018
• Over the last two weeks, travelers in the U.S. have been lucking out, with a flood of fall and winter flight deals to Europe.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 May 2017
• Somehow, Houston lucked out and was able to have three sports legends all wear the same number.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2018
• Richard M. Nixon lucked out in a 1968 Norman Rockwell portrait that makes him a nice, normal guy.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
• The Scullys lucked out this year with leftovers from a graduation party the day before.
  — Henry J. Morgan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2018
• Only a third of the Senate's 100 seats are up for grabs in any one election, and with this set, Republicans lucked out.
  — Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2017
• Toronto and New York haven’t lucked or stumbled or Concacafed their way this far.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• For years, those traveling through the C concourse have lucked out with the quirky dining room and bar of one of Denver’s homegrown restaurants, Root Down.
  — Josie Sexton, The Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• Filppula was acquired at the trade deadline last season, before the Flyers lucked out with the No.2 overall pick and Nolan Patrick.
  — Sam Donnellon, Philly.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• Still, Russian President Vladimir Putin has lucked out.
  — John Leicester, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
• There are a few insane guys that love to chase this reverse migration from Arkansas to Saskatchewan (when the border is open) and the rest of us are there to luck into a good shoot.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 18 Mar. 2021
• Sifton practically lucked into the trade years ago when, as a sketcher for the Department Fish and Wildlife, she was asked to help create sculptures for a trail for the blind.
  — Sara Cardine, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
• If only 6-1 Indiana could have been as fortunate to luck into that game.
  — Megan Ryan, Star Tribune, 10 Dec. 2020
• This dog chained to a telephone pole in Victoria, Texas, lucked out: a reporter spotted the animal and brought it to safety, according to the Daily Mail.
  — National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2017
• An offense that has looked anything but ready under backup Scott Tolzien has to find some semblance of a game plan should Luck's shoulder need more time to heal in September.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 3 May 2024