Sentence examples for once lucky from inspiring English sources

Our economy is littered with failed ventures started by people who were once lucky in business.

I was once lucky enough to meet Krzysztof Kieslowski, and he volunteered, without prompting, his love of Loach's film.

I was once lucky enough to visit the world's largest desert, which was one of the most memorable experiences of my life.

I was once lucky enough to play in a Sunday-afternoon run-through of the Mendelssohn Octet with Irvine Arditti leading; as I recall, he had never played it before.

I was once lucky enough to be sent by the Guardian in search of all Caravaggio's works, and Malta was the spookiest stop on the trip, the place I felt closest to his dark heart.

His novel, which owes something to Yevgeny Zamyatin's dystopian fiction We, probably began to acquire a definitive shape during 1943-44, around the time he and his wife, Eileen, adopted their only son, Richard, whom I was once lucky enough to interview about his father.

But here O'Neill, for once, got lucky.

He told me that he was once more lucky in his departmental seniors.

For once, as lucky licence-payers, the audience were being treated as if they had brains.

If she was turned down for public day care, her plan was to return to these nurseries, joining a yearly stampede of anxious mothers who look for private spots to open up once the lucky winners of subsidized slots drop from the competition.

Once the lucky ones got inside, they were met with even more lines, to 21 different attractions around the campus, most of which involved several more hours waiting in temperatures that neared 100 degrees fahrenheit.