Sentence examples for spectacular luck from inspiring English sources
In the late summer of 1926, when Rosamond Bernier was not quite 10 years old, her father put her on a ship and sent her off to her English boarding school, all by herself.Every evening she changed into a party dress, ate cold smoked tongue and then retired to the smoking room for gambling .I had spectacular luck," Bernier writes in her bonbon of a book, "Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir".
Mrs May has made her own luck this year, with spectacular rewards.
With any luck, the benefits for mankind could be spectacular.
In the end, his political luck ended when his top lieutenant fled in spectacular Hollywood fashion to the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu, bearing allegations of Bo-family treachery extending to the death of a British businessman named Neil Heywood.
For his trouble and loyalty, Barkley had a middling season with a less talented team, a shoulder injury and a spectacular downgrade by scouts, who determined that he looked a lot more like Matt Schaub than like Luck or Griffin.
By luck, the rover just happened to roll past a spectacular example of the conglomerate.
I wish him luck with that, it didn't work well with his spectacular double-back-flip-with-pike over the Gonski reforms, and I doubt it will be anymore successful this time.
They had to ride their luck, though, to hold on to the early lead given to them in spectacular fashion by Coutinho.
You might think that a local boy who made good on such a spectacular scale would be held forth as a lustrous example of what could be if one had the pluck and the luck.
