bad luck
IPA: bˈædɫˈʌk
noun
- (uncountable) An undesirable turn of events (such as an accident); misfortune.
Examples of "bad-luck" in Sentences
- Sarah clicked her tongue and said it is a bad-luck number.
- As for the "bad-luck incident" with the brakes, I'm not sure what caused the brake binder assemblies to fail.
- The six-minute “Partly Cloudy” cartoon that ran with the movie in theaters, about a bad-luck stork and his cloud dispatcher.
- Fox's menu of animated comedies takes a blow to the gut with this rancid new toon about a sad-sack family operating a bad-luck fast-food joint.
- They have overcome bad-luck injuries, a hostile crowd and peculiar officiating and pushed last year's Eastern Conference champions to the brinky brink of brinkiness.
- You don't want to read too much into one bad-luck charm finally seeing a win, but it did seem emblematic, the way the team fought back from near-catastrophe and left to cheers.
- Such was the case at yesterday's Tour of Flanders, which Fabian Cancellara managed to win despite a bike change necessitated by a "bad-luck incident with a couple of brake binder assemblies:"