adjective
definition
(of people) Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune
example
The downed pilot is very lucky to be alive.
definition
Producing, or resulting in, good fortune
example
a lucky cast
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Examples of lucky in a Sentence
Just consider you got lucky tonight.
We were lucky to get away from those dreadful vegetable people.
He was a lucky fox that left his tail in the trap.
The way things are going now, I'm lucky to save ten dollars a week.
I might get lucky.
There were only three bedrooms, and because she had to get up the earliest, she was the lucky one to have a room of her own - with the exception of Brandon, of course.
She'll be lucky if I let her survive the day.
Lucky you jumped aside, or it would have wiped you out!
Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him.
How did he get so lucky?
You were very brave, and it is lucky that the wolf was not there.
There's only a half dozen Lucky Strikes.
Sorry about getting hot up at the Lucky Pup.
I don't feel lucky.
They did get lucky.
Certainly he has no ties to Josh Mulligan of forty years ago, or the Dawkins, or the Lucky Pup mine.
You.re a lucky man.
The trench itself was the room, in which the lucky ones, such as the squadron commander, had a board, lying on piles at the end opposite the entrance, to serve as a table.
A little girl—a sort-of ward of ours—had an interest in the Lucky Pup Mine.
Josh Mulligan was Paul's mine manager at the Lucky Pup.
I was lucky enough to get an early flight.
You will in the meanwhile have earned your fare, and arrive there some time tomorrow, or possibly this evening, if you are lucky enough to get a job in season.
All I could think of was Randy and how lucky we are that he's got his act together in spite of this business with Jen—how much better off he is than Billy— and Jen than Melissa.
I suppose if she has a chance to get lucky, she should jump on him, so to speak.
I respected Andre, but now that he.s gone, you.re lucky I agreed to come at all.
Which lucky lady was on the phone?
My daughter is a lucky woman.
Lucky thing for us - we have plenty of both.
You're lucky she didn't file charges.
He early ran away from home to avoid being set to his father's trade, and at Heidelberg was lucky enough to find a generous patron in Johann von Dalberg and a teacher in Agricola.
In feng shui, two is very lucky, especially when it comes to personal relationships and wealth.
If you use these two symbols together along with your kua number, then you create a very powerful symbol that is embodied by lucky numbers.
The koi is a lucky symbol in feng shui philosophy, so when you make distinct choices in the number of fish per color, you magnify and increase the potency of number power.
In feng shui, picking lucky numbers can help you since numbers are just as important as elements and you can used them to create a feng shui cure for any chi imbalance in your home.
Several flowers rank in the category as good lucky symbols.
The knots are often used as a way to suspend another auspicious symbol such as six lucky coins and other symbols.
So you tried to buy The Lucky Pup so you could cover up the whole business once and for all.
Just lucky and it's a small town.
She'd be lucky to get any sleep with the vamps hovering over her and before facing one god no longer under her influence and another with a wild streak that might get them all killed.
Less lucky than his uncle, Conradin escaped with his life, to die upon a scaffold at Naples.
A papyrus in London contains a calendar of lucky and unlucky days.
Together with this idolatry there is also a firm belief in the power of witchcraft and sorcery, in divination, in lucky and unlucky days and times, in ancestor worship, especially that of the sovereign's predecessors, and in several curious ordeals for the detection of crime.
Richelieu came into power at a lucky moment.
When told of the happenings at her mine, she said she would consider changing its name—it hadn't been "lucky" for anyone.
Relief was forefront in Deidre's mind and the acknowledgment she'd gotten damn lucky that the demon lord favored winning deals over killing mates.
She'd be lucky to walk again soon, and without medical supplies…with her luck lately, she wouldn't die from infection, just suffer for the rest of her life.
He was a lucky man – but not because he had a wife who wanted him to be in control, as Katie believed.
You're lucky you know a vampire who trades blood for keeping you alive.
Tarantino is lucky because he had a six-year hiatus to hide the fact that he steals from any random film he likes.
Here you can spot alligators, turtles, snakes, amazing bird life and, if you're lucky, bears and panthers.