Sentence examples for unusual luck from inspiring English sources

All this, too, was extraordinary, unusual luck.

In interrogating Mr Obara, they were victims of "extremely bad and unusual luck: that one in a million in Japan, the dishonest criminal"."People Who Eat Darkness" may fuel a Western prejudice that Mr Lloyd Parry himself tries to counter: that such crimes are peculiarly "Japanese"—perpetrated by desperate, repressed men infatuated with a myth about Caucasian sexual availability.

Can Ireland's unusual good luck last?

To leave your next county with your kit being thrown off the balcony,  and then to play only intermittently for your next suggests either unusual bad luck or an uncommon temperament.

Among the many obstacles he overcomes is an ancient tradition in his tribe that declares he is cursed, due to some unusual circumstances of his birth, and bound to bring his family bad luck.

DOUBTS have persisted about Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, who reversed a humiliatingly dreadful first term in office in 2006-07 with a stunning return to power in 2012 a comeback often credited to the backing of abler and tougher political allies together with an unusual run of good luck.

A serendipitous discovery involving a rare cell demands an unusual confluence of luck — chance multiplied by chance.

Naturally, I was hesitant but I surmised quickly that if he were a serial killer, stumbling onto me, his next victim, was an unusual stroke of luck.

He's had an unusual amount of bad luck.

In a country not noted for social mobility, Mr. Toledo's rise indicates unusual perseverance, talent and luck.

But few can actually work their way through college in a normal amount of time without debt and little or no need-based financial aid unless they have an unusual combination of bravery, luck and discipline.