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Example sentences for "luckier"

Lexicographically close words:
luciferous; lucifers; lucis; luck; lucke; luckiest; luckily; luckless; lucklesse; lucky
  1. Luckier far than the chestnut tits, Which, down at the door, stood champing their bits, At a different sort of bridle.

  2. You know I have always been luckier than my deserts!

  3. He had been luckier than most, for he had had the rapture too.

  4. Let it be the right hand," observed the elder Lester, smiling: "it is a luckier omen.

  5. He was no luckier than a bird, for whom the cage is open that it may feel the more keenly with its little taste of liberty that it is tied by the leg.

  6. One day, the wind blew his upper garment open, and his luckier companions most “unphilosophically” jeered him when they saw that his outer covering was all that he had.

  7. Still, many who have mental powers have little strength in battling with life, and might be helped if their luckier sisters would be a little less selfish in their easily acquired security.

  8. How many of those who thought themselves honest, and who were honest now, had in the past yielded to a temptation once, as he had done, and having been luckier than he in escaping detection then, had never again risked it?

  9. When a man is on his way to prison to serve a term of years, the fewer those who cherish him, the luckier for them.

  10. Luckier than the crewmen of the USS Glover.

  11. Either Bunny was luckier than Buck, or a better tackler; opinion stood divided.

  12. The accident was embarrassing, to be sure, but it could hardly have occurred at a luckier spot.

  13. Upon which Daun did strive to bestir himself thitherward, at last; and, though very slow and hesitative, his measures otherwise were unexceptionable, and turned out luckier than had been expected by some people.

  14. Some men," remarked an acid voice, "are born a deal luckier than what they deserve to be.

  15. Some men, I imagine, are luckier than others.

  16. You're luckier than poor Tom Higbee, who won't be able to set his leg to the floor for three weeks to come.

  17. Give me only the same chance you gave the other poor fellow who sleeps yonder--the same chance you gave the luckier man who carried the wreath for you to put upon his grave.

  18. Pray tell Bernage so, and that I think nothing can be luckier for him, and that I would have him go by all means.

  19. I hope Ppt is luckier at picquet with the Dean and Mrs. Walls.

  20. Yes, as you were saying, I was very lucky to get off as well as I did--a good deal luckier than I deserved.

  21. The man who gets her for a wife will be a blamed sight luckier than the fellows who marry the brainless little fools we see trotting around like butterflies.

  22. Yes, professor, but I was luckier than you, and right away I was able to set foot on this floating islet.

  23. We couldn't have been luckier in our search for edible vegetation, and some of the most useful produce in the tropical zones supplied us with a valuable foodstuff missing on board.

  24. If he had fallen and been killed, it would have been the luckier for him," Graciosa sighed.

  25. The woman murmured: "Eh, you are luckier than I.

  26. Saint-Saens was luckier in 1867, when his cantata "Les Noces de Promethee" was allotted the first place in a competition organised for a work to be performed on the occasion of the opening of the International Exhibition.

  27. Gounod was not much luckier with his "Polyeucte," over which he had devoted so much thought and labour.

  28. Now if we can only trade these fellows out of a few native boats, we’ll be luckier still.

  29. Luckier were the chasers engaged at Durazzo, during the British and Italian bombardment, when this important Albanian harbour was rendered untenable as an enemy base.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "luckier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.