How to Use lucky in a Sentence

lucky

adjective
Definition of luckynext
Synonyms for luckynext
  • 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
  • And that’s how all the teams lived, though not so much the lucky ones from Moscow.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The rest of the junk-food economy might not be so lucky.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The Cowboys would be lucky to get off that cheap with Lamb.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
  • And Matthew, their three children, and the legendary Ma Mac get to be the lucky guinea pigs.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024
  • 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 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
  • For his part, Tarasenko feels lucky to be a Panther, too.
    — David Wilson, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
  • But then the conditions changed, a final break held and the flames stalled — lucky.
    — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The lucky winner matched all five white balls in the Feb. 10 drawing, results show.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Oregon won’t be so lucky; abundant clouds and some rain could steal the show.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The lucky player’s ticket matched all five white balls to win big.
    — Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024
  • Yet the lucky fans who were there wouldn’t have traded the experience for the world.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 25 Feb. 2024
  • What happened to Stephen and the gymnastic team was not a fluke or a lucky break.
    — Patsy Neal, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The lucky ones who did nab the coupons have until July 3 to redeem them.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Courier-Journal, 20 June 2024
  • Its follow-up, about the 2012 election, wasn’t so lucky.
    — Alexander Sorondo, Vox, 31 July 2024
  • But the music itself is good, and then the projection of it was so lucky.
    — Patrick Lyons, Spin, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The show will culminate with one lucky Barbie fan winning the chance to stay in the home.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Everyone should be so lucky to have a friend like that.
    — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
  • There were no lucky winners for the Match 5 or the Match 5 + Megaplier for Friday's drawing.
    — Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
  • And lucky for us, refiners offer some of the highest shareholder yields out there!
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024

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