Sentence examples for thought bad luck from inspiring English sources

14) Cancer is caused by environmental factors Research into the causes of cancer concluded that, on the whole, it is due to environmental factors, not, as was previously thought, "bad luck".

I think bad luck, although some people said I shouldn't have gone all out in a spring training game.

I thought the bad luck we had in 2011 had followed us into 2012.

"I think the bad luck we have had here before has been more because the horses were not good enough but I thought here we had a proper horse for Epsom.

You are avoided by so-called friends who think some bad luck will rub off on them.

Can guilt or shame -- or just what he thinks is bad luck and bad publicity -- tear down an athlete before his time?

Advancing into his 40s, Mason had reason to think of bad luck as he played Erwin Rommel in a couple of movies, Rupert of Hentzau in a remake of The Prisoner of Zenda and "Hendrik van der Zee" in the dotty but deliriously beautiful romance, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.

Stirring the batter for bannocks counterclockwise was popularly thought to bring bad luck.

Yellow is thought to be bad luck, in the theatre and in the bullring, but some matadors wear it anyway.

My mother was dismayed — she thought it was bad luck to postpone a wedding, no matter what the reason — but otherwise, our guests seemed relieved.

My mother was dismayed she thought it was bad luck to postpone a wedding, no matter what the reason but otherwise, our guests seemed relieved.