Sentence examples for plain luck from inspiring English sources

It's probably just plain luck".

Still, pay can vary by experience, skill, or just plain luck.

But vigorous responses by public-health officials, as well as plain luck, limited their impact.

These young people, it became clear, have thought intensely about justice, fairness, and plain luck. 5. "Nobody is complete".

Viruses don't decide how deadly to be; for humanity, H1N1's relative lack of virulence was just plain luck.

Other researchers wonder what -- whether environmental factors or just plain luck -- may explain a good part of the supertrees' success.

The Democrats are hoping to make the Senate ironclad by winning a 60-40 majority, which would let them break any Republican filibuster.The Senate map, for the Republicans, is an ugly mix of tough circumstances, plain bad luck and troubled candidates.

These women are not just unhappy; they are persecuted -- by men, by fate, by history, by plain bad luck, and it is hard to think of another film actress since the heyday of Joan Crawford who has demonstrated such a pronounced affinity for heroic masochism and romantic martyrdom.

It could be that extreme middle age has turned me into a nicer, less critical person, or it could be just plain dumb luck, but I seem to have found a lot to praise in the restaurants I've reviewed lately.

"That was just plain bad luck.

It was, in his mother's words, plain "dumb luck".