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Example sentences for: unlucky

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Do you think you're unlucky?
Despite a lower highway traffic volume on the 13 th than on the 6 th , admissions for traffic accident victims increased 52 percent on the 13 th . "Friday the 13 th is unlucky for some," the authors concluded.
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.
I want to meet the coldest women—the women who get their diamonds and cars and then start to bawl about how sad and unlucky they've been.
You might say he was unlucky to be shot down over the center of Hanoi--or you might say he was lucky as hell to survive the crash, despite breaking three of four limbs, and to avoid being finished off by an angry mob.