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Example sentences for "bad luck"

  • Bad luck to it for campaigning, any way, I never liked it!

  • A year's loadin' of bad luck to the whoule of thim!

  • Bad luck to you, do you understand your own language?

  • There are yet a few persons who refuse to sell a stock of bees, because it is "bad luck.

  • To sneeze at the table is bad luck, to sneeze when away from the table good luck.

  • Of cos now if youse breakes a mirror you cant keep from having bad luck.

  • If a cat crosses youse path to de left some kind of bad luck is sho to overtake on yer journey.

  • Bad luck to sich a set ever was seen together in this world, or will again, I suppose.

  • How I cursed my bad luck in not having a rifle.

  • To kick off his shoes and have them alight on their soles and remain standing upright means good luck to him, but if they fall over, bad luck is to be expected.

  • A torn bank-note means a change of position for the man in the box-office, while a gold certificate, strange to say, is a sign of bad luck.

  • Vaudeville performers believe it is bad luck to change the costumes in which they first achieved success, and many of them cling to these costumes until they literally fall apart.

  • Even the drop-curtain contributes its share of stage superstitions, as nearly every actor and manager believes it is bad luck to look out at the audience from the wrong side of it when it is down.

  • Bad luck to him, he's got the bit in his teeth!

  • Bad luck to them," said Barney as he slipped over the side, "they're welcome to me.

  • Bad luck to them, they've ruined Martin intirely.

  • Ye have no call to be frettin' that way; let him say what he likes, bad luck to him!

  • There isn't a wan of us that 'ud ever let yez go there, bad luck to it!

  • Once, as she loved to relate, she had burnt her lovely fringe with that same pipe--"bad luck to it!

  • It was certainly a piece of bad luck to lose his splendid rick, but he had paid the villains well out for it.

  • But they knew I had a thrifle of a sivin-shooter, an' bad luck to the one o' thim that dared mislist me at all.

  • As stated above, one is grief, or bad luck, if it flies from right to left, but if from left to right it implied success or joy.

  • A Rookery deserted was a sign of bad luck, but when they nested near a house it was a sign of good luck.

  • The former lines in English would be:-- One crow I see, Bad luck to me.

  • You have had a most unusual run of bad luck.

  • Besides, it is bad luck to part with any of your winnings while you are still playing.

  • I was having an abominable run of bad luck, and yet I hated to give up my seat without an excuse.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bad luck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are called; bad luck; bad man; bad weather; bade adieu; bade farewell; bade him; bade them; badly frightened; badly wounded; country seat; died away; east longitude; good size; left hand; like face; like thine; mistake not; narrow coastal; plural marriage; quite straight; setting apart; shows himself; small schooner; suddenly thought; went afterwards