Sentence examples for poor luck from inspiring English sources

'poor luck' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to express sympathy or regret when something unfortunate or unwanted has happened. For example: "I'm so sorry to hear that you didn't get the job. Poor luck."

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Poor luck is not enough.

Some passengers joked about her poor luck.

It was, as he said, mostly poor luck.

He was also sympathetic regarding Hamilton's poor luck this weekend.

But Uggla was essentially a.260 hitter, within the usual boundaries of good or poor luck.

Most of the women had the poor luck to have been born in poverty.

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Martínez's elevation owes itself to some poor judgment and even poorer luck – the sort that seems to bedevil Arsenal more than most clubs.

"I made them aware that he'd got it wrong at half-time and you'd expect him to get that right," Neil said, "but I'm not going to sit here saying: 'Poor us, luck's not on our side.'" At least it did not floor Norwich.

It was my poor judgment, luck, or both that I happened to be looking at him at the time.

All these countries which are classified as poor, and luck enough resources to offer effective Agricultural Extension services to their farmers.

Whatever the structural reasons, no matter how outdated that prototype possession game may have become, compared to the more varied tactical experiments elsewhere in Europe, Van Gaal has simply failed in the normal way: a routine, everyday, entirely explicable kind of failure, borne out of the usual bad decisions, injuries, bad luck, poor judgment, poor timing.

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