Sentence examples for was rather lucky from inspiring English sources

I caught his most recent victory, in the Broward Handicap, on TV last weekend, and I thought he was rather lucky... View Article By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb By Jia Tolentino By Bernard Avishai.

We are rather lucky, really.

I'd been rather lucky with the timing of it.

"I think Sarah is rather lucky that I wasn't following her.

The volunteers on "The Colony" are rather lucky: they find food, tools to restore electricity, a first aid kit and even a chalkboard for organizing and note-taking.

I've been rather lucky in that.

The informant comments on a family tradition in which the god is thanked for a bountiful catch of fish: The old folk [folk in the olden days?] were always rather lucky when they went fishing.

Carlo Ancelotti's team were rather laboured and ultimately lucky to win a tightly contested game against Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 on Saturday evening, courtesy of a Mats Hummel header from an improvised corner ("I was supposed to take it short but no one came," Joshua Kimmich said) and Javi Martínez saving a goal-bound Kevin Volland header with his right arm, without anyone relevant noticing.

("Modern satellite images," she writes, "demonstrate that the great explorer was lucky rather than prescient" in establishing his base on the floating ice of the Barrier).

"He missed his other opportunities but sometimes you've just got to be lucky rather than good.

Sometimes it pays to be lucky rather than good, though -- two good Ghana chances were broken up when the ball bounced off U.S. defender Geoff Cameron before Brooks scored the game-winner.