Example sentences for: unlucky

How can you use “unlucky” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In one case, police used a shoe print to link an unlucky Nike loyalist to 36 other crimes.

  • As a journalist, however, he was careless, and I happened to be his unlucky victim.

  • There is also the learned guess, as in the etymology for groundhog , the Midland name for the eastern woodchuck, which may be a calque from Dutch aertoercken , and archaic variant of aardvarken , literally `earth pig'; or hieronymous , a euphemism for the posterior, which may derive from Greek hieron osteon , the name for the sacrum; or the southern Appalachian expression to come out of the little end of the horn meaning `to be unlucky,' which is probably an allusion to a “reverse” cornucopia.

  • Do you think you're unlucky?

  • Yet most people prefer B), because in case B) you never know whether you've been unlucky.


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