Sentence examples similar to run of ill luck from inspiring English sources

The custom was meant to rid the place annually of ill luck.

you have endured and performed many labours and withstood the buffetings of all the winds of ill luck.

"Then, by a stroke of ill luck, I lost it all…This, of course, is nothing extraordinary for Americans".

"Lucius, my friend," the priest of the goddess addresses him, you have endured and performed many labours and withstood the buffetings of all the winds of ill luck.

Some innovations come too early, others falter from lack of confidence or peter out through ill luck.

We have no good of which we are assured; Yet, in misfortune we can hope, assured That ill luck like all luck shifts constantly.

Dogged by ill luck (a broken rudder, a captain eaten by sharks) she never won a China race, but later made a packet as the fastest ship on the Australian wool run.

But grand dreams built on shifting sands often provide unexpected plot turns and strokes of good or ill luck.

Is this the deal to end run of bad luck?

Then he hit a run of bad luck.

a) Edith, complaining about her run of bad luck.