Sentence examples for depending on their luck from inspiring English sources

The characters look back on the action of the past – from either old age or the afterlife, depending on their luck – and Dora's reflections on this violation are: "I screamed, but I could feel myself getting wet … I felt a pleasure I'd never known … I'd been raped by that pack of savages and I'd actually felt pleasure".

Common thugs and criminals are notoriously bad shots; they don't get much practice time; so make their shot depend on their luck and keep moving erratically.

But people vary widely in all these qualities, depending on their parents' genes, and the pure luck of the draw at conception when each child gets allotted a random selection of half the parental gene pool.

The kind of people who end up in glossy magazines or body bags, depending on how their luck runs".

For years Fire Island residents have depended on their fire departments and luck to save their communities.

I don't know what kind of future these kids will have, and I suppose it depends on their own unique combinations of luck, determination, and fate.

One shouldn't be too comfortable or smug, of course; a lot depends on luck, and luck is always for the moment.

Again and again Lamson reminds us how near-run a thing survival is in such a land, and how often escape depends on luck and luck alone.

The instrument assesses 3 dimensions of health locus of control beliefs (3 items each): internal (high perceived own influence on health status), external-social (health status perceived as controlled by others) and external-fatalistic (health status perceived as depending on luck or destiny).

Goes to show: a wolf, as many a human, may have talents and abilities that wither or flower depending on which way their luck breaks.

Depending on the luck of the draw.