Sentence examples for proved unlucky from inspiring English sources

Her timing proved unlucky.

The 13th hole proved unlucky for him.

Friday the thirteenth has proved unlucky for Invensys.

Certainly, the No. 13 proved unlucky for him.

"I was here, then I moved there, and when I came back here, they got the job there," Frankie said, pointing out the various spots along Morris Street where his timing had proved unlucky today.

It made a net loss of $140.5m£90.6m6m) The 13th Warrior (1999), a sword-and-sandals romp starring Antonio Banderas, proved unlucky for Buena Vista films, a division of Disney.

Then billed as Andy Robinson, he made your skin crawl as the sniper, Scorpio, who proves unlucky against Mr. Eastwood's.44 Magnum.

Although on December 11th Mr Fresco said he intended to stay put till next summer, Friday might yet prove unlucky.Mr Galateri has spent most of his life running the family interests of the Agnellis, who own about a third of Italy's biggest car company.

Newport had managed just six wins and two draws from their opening 12 matches, but the Welsh side's 13th fixture was to prove unlucky for New Zealand.

That champion, though, turned 36 in February, a number in boxing that has proved more unlucky than 13.

Writers faced political repression and "found that the independence their country was supposed to have won was totally without content.... Like the head of John the Baptist, this gift to Nigeria proved most unlucky".