Sentence examples for stroke of bad from inspiring English sources

A further stroke of bad luck prevented the appearance of part of Self's prize.

The first time, you think: What a stroke of bad luck.

The novelist Elizabeth Taylor's career began with a stroke of bad luck.

Regardless, the injury seemed like a stroke of bad luck for the injury-ridden Mets.

They were ordinary guys just like me, except they'd had a stroke of bad luck and couldn't cope.

He tells me the bumsters are chancers, and I decide to regard the bag-snatching as just a stroke of bad luck.

But in the early fifties he suffered two strokes of bad luck.

"Partly this was due to several strokes of bad luck; partly it was because he was more brilliant at inventing than at business.

Gaffe, or stroke of exceedingly bad luck?

The idea is chic, and chic is good, but when it operates in art as a lesson instead of a stroke of inspiration, bad things can happen.

So in 1915, just as in 2014, there was a temptation to write off the lost lives as a stroke of monumental bad luck rather than a war crime.