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Example sentences for: hard-luck

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From the bar of Greenwich Village's Lion's Head pub, where he reigned as a sort of rumpled deadbeat Buddha, he attracted a circle of seedy admirers who kept him in cold beer and pocket change in return for recycled, embellished anecdotes concerning his hard-luck youth and years of wandering.
The stories list other family occurrences that show the Kennedys as a hard-luck family.
The story's hard-luck cases include: people with a $50,000 car and Armani suits but shabby furniture, a woman who was able to drive home her 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee the day she saw it, but twice has had to wait twelve weeks for furniture ordered at Pottery Barn, and a management consultant who despite having hired a decorator and ordering $70,000 worth of furniture including a hand-carved entertainment center, has still only received one of the pieces.
The runner-up, chronic hard-luck racer Scott Goodyear, complained the mix-up had prevented him from passing Luyendyk.