Sentence examples for major stroke of luck from inspiring English sources

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Stroke of luck.

When something fortunate happens unexpectedly, it is a stroke of luck.

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A major stroke of luck was his being cast in The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926).

There was one major stroke of luck for Redknapp's team when the erratic French referee Laurent Duhamel inexplicably failed to spot the fact that the goalscorer Jermain Defoe had controlled the ball with his arm.

It must feel like a major stroke of luck that "The Female Persuasion," which examines, among other things, the mottled legacy that second-wave feminism has left for American women now coming of age, arrives in the midst of the most prominent popular feminist movement in decades.

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And that in itself is no minor stroke of luck.

We basically grounded it out until we got a huge stroke of luck with a major shot in the arm.

And another stroke of luck!

What a stroke of luck.

That was a fabulous stroke of luck.

It was a stroke of luck.

Another stroke of luck, he claims now.

A stroke of luck changed the mood.

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