Read full poem →You, we hear, are shut up! indeed, it is sadly distressing!
We were most lucky, they say, to get off when we did from the troubles.
Now you are really besieged; they tell us it soon will be over;
Dictionary Entry
(of people) Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune
In a Sentence
“The downed pilot is very lucky to be alive.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. luckyenough lucky
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Poetry examples for “lucky”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Sub. Thou art lucky — a good star reigned at thy birth.
Read full poem →car. ‘Yeah, that’s what that dirty son-of-a-bitch did!’ says the man. ‘Well,’
says the guy unzipping his fly, ‘I guess this just isn’t your lucky day!”
Read full poem →get rid of it. Meanwhile my father was talking about how good it all tasted,
how lucky we were to be eating good food when most of the people in the
world, and many even in
Read full poem →"Well," he said, "we've sure got a whole bunch of gratitude on tap for
the lucky way we dropped in here. Chances looked twenty to one it
couldn't be done. And I'd like to wager that no other air pilot could
Read full poem →Secured, for half the way,
(He lock'd us in, ah, lucky-starr'd,)
A curtain'd, front coupe.
Read full poem →Awl Felix, coming when he did,
Was lucky; for Honoria, too,
Was half in love. How warm she grew
Read full poem →drowning pertinacity of Watts; neither have they the interest of
his occasional simple, lucky beauty. Burns having fortunately
been rescued by his humble station from the contaminating society
Read full poem →He might have bought less corn or cattle, gambled
On lucky sales of cattle--there's a way
To do a big thing when you have the eyes
Read full poem →“It’s lucky for me, lad,
Your daddy’s in the ground,