Sentence examples for miserable luck from inspiring English sources

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He was incredibly ordinary for most of the regular season this year, and at 36, it is easy to think of him as an intermittent ace who has passed his prime and lost the heart of his career to Tommy John surgery and miserable luck.

On the park, the visitors should have doubled their advantage early in the second period, but Kris Boyd's miserable luck in front of goal continued.

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Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser, recently said: "We should be doing everything we can to encourage the centrifugal forces in Iran that, with any luck, will drive that miserable government from office".

Another hard-luck case in a miserable economy?

Yet he would come to believe that it was not just his "own ill luck" that made adulthood such a miserable sequel to childhood.

A miserable hotel receptionist (Dominique Abel), down on his luck, nearly chokes to death on a ketchup bottle top hidden in his sandwich, and is saved by a strange woman (Gordon) who may have just escaped from the mad house.

But with any luck this drop (along with the miserable demos) will be the new normal for pundit-laden yapping and tragedy telethons that pass for news programs.

If the application is borderline -- generally good grades but, say, a miserable rut freshman year -- and the essay explains the slump with aplomb, the writer might just be in luck.

A miserable three-week stretch this month dropped the Cubs from a share of first place into the better-luck-next-year ranks, disappointment setting in two months earlier than usual.

In any case, luck-egalitarians are unlikely to claim that luck-neutralization is the only ideal, as that would imply that a world where everyone lives miserable lives is better, all things considered, than a world where half the people live tremendous lives and the other half live even better lives.

Or miserable.

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