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Example sentences for "luckily"

Lexicographically close words:
lucis; luck; lucke; luckier; luckiest; luckless; lucklesse; lucky; lucos; lucrative
  1. Luckily for them a sergeant on signalling duty heard their cries, and at once rushed to their help.

  2. Luckily his fears were altogether unfounded, but although the accident has not affected my dancing, the ankle has never been quite right to this day.

  3. Luckily the General has heard of these Penzance pirates before, and he wrings their sympathy with the sad news that he, too, is "an orphan boy.

  4. Luckily the jam roll trade was flourishing, and so it was seldom the youthful swain met his lady-love empty-handed.

  5. We passed, too, a party of about fifty men hauling up on long ropes a heavy drilling engine, the sort of labour of which British fatigue parties have, luckily for themselves, no experience.

  6. But luckily they left San Martino alone, thinking it too small to worry about.

  7. Luckily we had pretty good cover, mainly caverne blasted in the rock.

  8. But luckily for us he switched away to the right.

  9. Down I went, luckily for me, into a patch of mossy soil.

  10. He tried to search our faces, but luckily the great moon, now almost at her full, was hidden behind a thick cloud, so that he could not read them well.

  11. Luckily I had thought of bringing this food with us; also a flask of spirits.

  12. He told me that he had cleansed and sewn up Stephen's wound, which appeared to be doing well, although the spear had pierced right through the shoulder, luckily without cutting any artery.

  13. Luckily no one was hit, and we were soon round a point and under cover; also their shooting was as bad as usual.

  14. Luckily at this moment, the sun at length came out almost opposite to us.

  15. Luckily he was sitting next to me and I could kick him under the table.

  16. The shafts of most of them were somewhat rotten from the damp, but luckily they were furnished with copper sockets from two and a half to three feet long, into which the wood of the shaft fitted, so that they were still serviceable.

  17. His enumerating several persons in one group, and leaving them 'each a book at their election,' might possibly have given occasion to a curious question as to the order of choice, had they not luckily fixed on different books.

  18. I know only that you luckily escaped the quicksand.

  19. Luckily I always managed to get out, though not by myself.

  20. But, luckily for you, none of the others took his suggestion up.

  21. During the terrible Mauser fire, however, which well nigh decimated his squadron, he received a bullet through the body, the same passing the base of the right lung, luckily without permanently injuring that vital organ.

  22. The stragglers had returned, but, luckily for them, their outlying pickets gave the alarm in time, and enabled them to escape in hot haste.

  23. A horrible tussle ensued, but luckily at the end of the day Colonel Crabbe was able to withdraw to Mortimer Station with his force, five of whom were wounded.

  24. Luckily for the gentleman who had compared her to the Jew politician, she did not meet him again in Italy.

  25. She discovered a man more of a match with herself; luckily not too late.

  26. Luckily it did not take long to force the discontented to own the weight of his arm and his superiority as a military leader.

  27. Luckily his private property had enormously increased by this time.

  28. Luckily at this employment she learned everything, and came back in great haste to her mistress, to whom she recounted the strange machinations of the count.

  29. Luckily we don't often die hereabouts, or we'd never get the praties set or the turf cut.

  30. The natural pain he may be expected to undergo after this disagreeable discovery is luckily to some extent mitigated by the information that although England is not Christian, Ireland is extremely so.

  31. But luckily his back was turned when I caught the curls, and stuffed them hastily into her hand before she was on her feet, nobody seeing except Dick.

  32. Luckily for me, as I have had to do more sight-seeing here than almost anywhere else, Bath is a fascinating place, and I believe it's becoming very fashionable again.

  33. Luckily I inherited mamma's genius for high diplomacy, while you, alas, only came in for her rheumatism.

  34. Luckily he couldn't see me blush in the dark.

  35. Well, it appears no more populous now, luckily for the picture.

  36. I yelled a little more, hoping the puppy would be gentleman enough to come back to a lady in distress, and luckily Sir Lionel heard my howls.

  37. I had all sort of botheration about it, but luckily I knew the colonel of the regiment there, and he went to the bank with me and testified.

  38. Luckily Major Peters has been well enough to look after things in general, and help the commissariat man; still, with forty bad cases, I have not had much time on my hands.

  39. Luckily Aunt Maria's room was some feet in the rear.

  40. He luckily had on top-boots, or probably he would not have lived to tell the tale, for the little beast was round on him and made a deep mark on the leather in a second.

  41. It seemed on the point of developing into civil war, when we luckily gathered that our old friends the garrapatas were the cause of all the trouble.

  42. Luckily I had presence of mind to say that he had shortened the leather too much, and there was not much difference between the two, when, with Laura and some seven companions, I started down the avenue in front of the house.

  43. I was naturally anxious to oblige him, and luckily had nothing to keep me in town; so that afternoon saw me rapidly speeding southwards, and the evening, comfortably domiciled at The Lodge.

  44. Luckily for Sixtus, no one recognized him, and Baum, who was without his livery, allowed no information to escape him.

  45. Luckily for her, at that moment, the duke and the king came out of the apartment.

  46. She now saw what danger she had been in, and how luckily she had escaped it.

  47. Luckily Gorgonio, ever on the alert, caught at her bridle as she passed him, and no more damage was done beyond the breaking of the bit.

  48. Luckily Don Adolfo, the only man in the village who had not been to the Carnival ball, was up and about, and he kindly helped me to unload the mules, and then asked me to stay and share his breakfast.

  49. Luckily the snake was a small one, but the two little round blue-edged marks left by his poison-fangs were not to be mistaken, and the mozo's foot and leg were already greatly swollen.

  50. Luckily there was plenty of good bread to be bought, and a neighbour supplied us with excellent coffee.

  51. A solitary black storm-cloud had gathered over the surface of the water and threatened us with a drenching should it come over our way; but luckily we escaped it, and its changing tints only added to the beauty of the scene.

  52. Luckily for us the wind was in our favour and the fire was carried swiftly along the river-bank to the westward.

  53. Luckily for us on one occasion this ceremony took place just before dusk, and a hastily snatched-up camera secured the picture given below.

  54. Twice I saw our boy Caralampio pitched right over his mule's head, the mule losing both his fore legs in a burrow, but luckily both boy and mule escaped unhurt.

  55. I luckily caught Norman at the club, just as he was calling for his mail.

  56. Luckily Mary was not there and Oliver, having finished the Seminary, was passing some months in Europe.

  57. Luckily there were no boats at the head of the pier, and so Dan had struck nothing harder than the water.

  58. Luckily they all had easy tasks that morning and so were able to report on time to the orderly.

  59. Rooke luckily had the forethought to swim under water for the first eight or ten strokes and so avoided some of the youths who, with little hope of winning themselves, were anxious to get in the way of dangerous rivals.

  60. Luckily tomorrow will be Sunday, and I can sleep late in my room--if I get there.

  61. Luckily our room is on the front of the dorm.

  62. Luckily he placed some money in our (English) government funds, and his only alternative was to proceed to England.

  63. Luckily for you, flowered dressing-gowns are out, or you might have been represented a Mantelini.


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