Sentence examples for luck means from inspiring English sources

Just what the term "luck" means surely varies from person to person.

In this case, "bad luck" means that one Duke of Clarence was executed by his brother as a traitor (Shakespeare wrote about that, depicting him as being drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine) and that another, Prince Albert Victor, a grandson of Queen Victoria, was caught up in a scandal involving a gay-prostitution ring, and died of influenza soon after becoming engaged to Princess Mary of Teck.

Compton's bad luck means that former Worcestershire and England batsman Graeme Hick remains the last man to score 1,000 first-class runs by the end of May, achieving the feat in 1988.

He was one of the favourites for the title at the start of the year but the emergence of Marc Marquez, crashes and pure bad luck means he misses out again.

A combination of foresight, careful planning and good luck meant that this year eight of the nominees had visited the Guardian studios to perform live.

The concept caught on in early America, and, according to the site, in the West "pot luck" meant food brought by a cowboy guest.

(This should be happy news to travelers who were unlucky enough to come to Boston during foliage season or, worse, graduation time, when luck meant hunting down an overpriced motel room).

Luckily, the complexities of the case and a bit of luck meant they weren't going to be recovering a corpse by the end of the hour.

When the Irish rejected the Lisbon Treaty in 2008, a stroke of luck meant that by 2009, with their economy suddenly on its knees, they backed a slightly revised version.

You see just how much luck and chance (a lot) meant that we could evolve at all.

With any luck this means that the player beta shouldn't be too far off.