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Example sentences for "hard luck"

  • Hard luck, Matt, that events should drift into this tangle!

  • While everything connected with that iron chest and its contents seemed to condemn me to a run of hard luck, it has always been you and your good fortune that stepped in, at the last minute, and saved the day.

  • A fellow never has such a run of hard luck but he can think a little and see where it might have been a whole lot worse.

  • A circus came along to Lexington, where I had my string, and with the circus, in charge of the performing horses, was an old trainer friend of mine from the St. Louis track who had been chased into the show business by a long run of hard luck.

  • I knew the young fellow pretty well, and I knew that since his father had run him out of Richmond he had had more than his share of hard luck.

  • There was an old trainer hanging around the Latonia barns at that time who was in hard luck from a whole lot of different points of view.

  • Once there was a party named Job, and he had all sorts of hard luck.

  • She's a good boat, an' wouldn't be sold for twice two hundred if her owner hadn't tumbled into a stretch of hard luck.

  • There certainly must be a lot of hard luck there.

  • I guess Sam was wrong about this hard luck business," remarked John Clemens one day to Grant Jones.

  • Well, doan' you all know dat Finns is hard luck?

  • All Ah knows is dat Finns is hard luck on boats an' always has been.

  • However, when his "hunch" struck him shortly before a bit of hard luck, he was sure to brag about it.

  • It's hard luck, and I can't understand it.

  • It's hard luck, that's a fact," muttered Clay.

  • That was hard luck," said Ned, smiling at the recollection.

  • It's hard luck, that's a fact," muttered Hocker.

  • Then, too, a man in hard luck is a man in hard luck whether he has a bank account or whether he hasn't.

  • Taking into account the number of people who were gathered together here in a small area I didn't see among the temperate and able-bodied any worse examples of hard luck than I saw among my former associates.

  • I am a discharged soldier and I'm in hard luck.

  • There you go," Harry said; "Hard Luck Gaylong, the boy grouch.

  • You can get a lot of fun out of hard luck.

  • Ever since he had taken possession of the charm he had encountered a run of hard luck, but everything that had so far happened to him was trivial as compared with this final catastrophe.

  • If he could give them the same run of hard luck that he had been having, it might be easier for Matt to recover the chest.

  • It was a terrific long line drive to center field, but Stone took the ball on the run, and the Clearport sympathizers groaned and cried, "Hard luck!

  • Hard luck, Len," sounded the voice of Rackliff, as Oakdale's burst of applause died down.

  • The score was now 3 to 0 on even innings, and, with only three more innings to go, it looked as though the Giants were due to break their long run of hard luck.

  • Hard luck, Jim," was Joe's greeting to his comrade, as the latter came in and made ready for the showers.

  • He's a good feller, and had a heap of hard luck, too.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hard 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:
    black arrow; considerable time; daily paper; district courts; establish itself; hard and; hard bread; hard fate; hard fighting; hard labour; hard life; hard luck; hard paste; hard snow; hard stone; hard tack; hard upon; hard voice; hardly conscious; hardly less; hardly necessary; hardly need; hardly possible; hardy perennial; setting fire; sweet little