LUCKY in a Sentence

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For LUCKY, below is one of 96 sentences:
Afterward they drifted into a roulette parlor, and Jurgis, who was never lucky at gambling, dropped about fifteen dollars.

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 Meanings and Examples of LUCKY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lucky
 a.  occurring by chance
 a.  having or bringing good fortune
Classic Sentence: (68 in 5 pages)
1  Everybody said I was lucky to get a girl to come away out here, and I agreed to give her a dollar extry to make sure.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  But I do not think they think these things and they are lucky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  Rhett's boats were singularly lucky both in taking out cotton for the Confederacy and bringing in the war materials for which the South was desperate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  The lucky ones had old flintlock muskets slung over their shoulders and powder-horns at their belts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  At Tara, they ate rabbit and possum and catfish, if Pork was lucky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Especially after he remarked that it was lucky he went to sleep easy, for otherwise the sound of women clattering like a flock of guinea hens would certainly drive him crazy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
7  And as for Scallawags--that's you and me, my pet--we'll be lucky if we aren't spit upon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
8  And, if she was lucky, she might see him alone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
9  You're mighty nice to want to do things for me, Captain Butler, but really, I'm so lucky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
10  Bresnahan dropped his arm caressingly on Carol's shoulder; he pronounced, "My Lord, you're a lucky girl to have a fine young husk like that."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  I guess I never appreciated how lucky I was to have a girl with imagination and lively feet to play with.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  They are accounted a lucky omen.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  In the face of handicaps such as these the packers counted themselves lucky if they could kill off the cattle that had been crippled in transit and the hogs that had developed disease.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
14  Afterward they drifted into a roulette parlor, and Jurgis, who was never lucky at gambling, dropped about fifteen dollars.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
15  But the enemy who, by any lucky concurrence of accidents, has found means to elude the vigilance of the scouts, will seldom meet with sentinels nearer home to sound the alarm.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  The lucky winner will be able to choose from three different holidays.
2  I feel almost ashamed that I've been so lucky.
3  He's gone straight to the top, the lucky bastard.
4  Some lucky people are endowed with both brains and beauty.
5  I am certainly lucky to have a kind wife who is loving by nature.
6  For the lucky few, there's the chance of being plucked from obscurity and thrown into the glamorous world of modelling.
7  If you're lucky enough to be different, don't ever change.
8  U r so lucky, coz u can choose to love me or not, but myself only have to choose from loving u or loving u more.
9  Consider yourself lucky you weren't in the car at the time.
10  A lucky find in the Cotswolds is helping archaeologists discover what life was like in Roman Britain.
11  Jean was really lucky that she picked a winning number on the first draw.
12  I was lucky because everything fell into place at exactly the right time.
13  Robert was lucky to escape with just a broken foot after being squashed against a fence by a car.
14  She counted herself lucky that she still had a job.
15  We were lucky to persuade a famous judge to lend his name to the movement for improving prison conditions.