Sentence examples for of great luck from inspiring English sources
He was a man of great principle and of great luck, blessed in the ownership that supported him and blessed with a loving wife who cared for him to the very end an end that was miles from easy.
The word in the industry was that Johnson benefited from his own solid strategy, a run of great luck and rules that were tilted too much in his direction.
Some proponents of biblical creationism take these numerical balancing acts as proof of an intelligent being who fine-tuned the universe to be hospitable, others as a meaningless coincidence or a stroke of great luck.
Years and lives later, Lillian Gish told me one day that it was a matter of great luck in life whether any moviegoer got to see some sensational person at the right moment.
To speak of a Harvard education not as an entitlement, but as a gift of enormous magnitude--an opening of one's mind to a lifetime of learning--bestowed as an act of grace upon a select few, each of whom is the beneficiary of great luck.
Finding the space debris was a stroke of great luck--the last known meteorite with this composition landed on Earth over 30 years ago.
Maybe it's the casino sheen of the elevator door, but they look instead like happy gamblers, on a winning streak and not inclined to question, or try to control, the source of their great luck.
This may be too much to ask of the older beneficiaries of Hong Kong's great luck — the immigrants who fled China for Hong Kong in the 1940s and '50s.
The Knicks, of course, had great luck in 1985, when they landed the first pick of the first lottery and resurrected their franchise by drafting Patrick Ewing.
We had the great luck of having the guidance of two dear friends -- Elena (a talented psychic) and Cathy (a geriatric nurse) -- say clearly to me that Maitai was "ready".
When he gets to Luggnagg, he learns about a group within the population there known as the Struldbrugs, who have what seems to be the great luck of eternal life.
