Sentence examples for terrific luck from inspiring English sources

Ray said he tried to stay occupied by doing odd jobs, although he has not always had terrific luck when he has found employment.

Fran is describing her terrific luck in finding the apartment, falling into it, desperate, after fleeing San Francisco with Matilda and a few pieces of luggage.

How many other schoolboys would even have realised, let alone celebrated, their "terrific luck" that two English teachers, both liked and respected, disagreed profoundly as to whether Paradise Lost was any good?

That's a good head start, and with only 120 days or so remaining before the election — minus a couple of holiday breaks — catching up with him would require great expense, masterly political craft, terrific luck or some combination of the three.

By E. J. Kahn and Harold Ross The New Yorker, August 9 , 1941P. 7 Just about a year ago we reported on the blossoming of a Chinese evergreen plant at the Dragon Inn, on W 4th St., an event, which, according to ancient Oriental tradition, accurs once every 10,000 years & brings terrific good luck to all who gaze upon the flower.

The seventh episode explores with haunting tenderness the desire to care and be cared for, first in a difficult, funny conversation between the characters played by Gedrick and Dunn (both of whom are simply terrific in "Luck") and then through a series of spare scenes tinged with the melancholia of Edward Hopper's paintings.

Tells how he found a layer in the cave floor which, by a terrific stroke of luck, had entombed the lower layer.

The worst was over by the time I got there — my weather luck was terrific — but it was a mammoth disaster, and perhaps the mood I encountered was colored by widespread sympathy.