How to Use lucky in a Sentence

lucky

adjective

• I feel lucky to be alive.
• He scored a goal on a lucky shot.
• I count myself lucky to know you.
• We're lucky that things turned out as well as they did.
• The lucky winner will be given a brand new car.
• I know you'll enjoy the show if you're lucky enough to get a ticket.
• Tickets were available only for the lucky few.
• Their meeting was a lucky accident.
• Clark, 53, was one of the lucky ones in the last shutdown.
  — Derek Hawkins, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• The man was lucky to get one pitch to hit per at-bat, if that.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
• There are the winners but mostly the losers, the lucky and the unlucky.
  — Vogue, 27 Oct. 2022
• And that’s how all the teams lived, though not so much the lucky ones from Moscow.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
• One of the most lethal forms of cancer, how on earth was that lucky?
  — Eric Idle, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
• The rest of the junk-food economy might not be so lucky.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Salaries have not caught up, for those lucky enough to still have jobs.
  — Suzan Haidamous, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• The Cowboys would be lucky to get off that cheap with Lamb.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• London and the rest of the UK might not be so lucky come winter.
  — Sommer Saadi, Bloomberg.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• And Matthew, their three children, and the legendary Ma Mac get to be the lucky guinea pigs.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2024
• His best friend, Johnny, a Black boy from the wrong side of the tracks, is not so lucky.
  — Steve Chagollan, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• But the people who deleted the app haven’t been so lucky.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2025
• At the time of the deal, Ballard admitted the team got lucky.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2022
• But to get gold, Larsen added, Fisher will have to be lucky.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• Thanks to Tinashe, some lucky people won't have to pay rent this month.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
• Not lucky enough that it’s been with someone where it’s worked out at the right time.
  — Kate Storey, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
• For his part, Tarasenko feels lucky to be a Panther, too.
  — David Wilson, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
• Most of her players, even the tallest at 5-8, were lucky to get their forearms above the net.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 28 Sep. 2022
• But then the conditions changed, a final break held and the flames stalled — lucky.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Adele is feeling lucky in love with boyfriend Rich Paul.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2022
• Aren’t you and your brother lucky, in a way, to be finding out what’s down there?
  — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• And thank you for being a guiding light in the lives of everyone lucky enough to know you.
  — Colson Thayer, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025