Like lottery winners

Usage examples of lucky.

I guess that was one of the few times when I was lucky to be black, because the older Aboriginal girls always gave us black babies an extra kiss and cuddle.

To think how when I find this lucky star, And stand beneath it, like the Wise of old, I shall mount upward on a golden car, Girt round with glory unto worlds afar, While Earth amazed the wonder shall behold, That bears me unto happiness untold!

Lucky for me I met up with someone my own size, Alec thought, inspecting the boots more closely.

One lucky person will receive the alexandrite, but in order to be fair to all, no one must mention the rare gem.

I was somewhere else, and Amaranth was there, and they told me what a lucky man I was.

The virtue claimed for that piece of parchment by the man who had sold it to me was that it insured its lucky possessor the love of all women, but I trust my readers will do me the justice to believe that I had no faith whatever in amorous philtres, talismans, or amulets of any kind: I had purchased it only for a joke.

He would not after all be lucky enough to sit under that oak on that dreamed hillside someday with a miraculously saved Weed Atman, in some 1980s world of the future.

Has it struck you, Bora, that you are blessedly lucky to be alive and sane?

The identification codes that Broder had sent him were good then, and a lucky thing.

The identification codes that Broder had sent hir were good then, and a lucky thing.

Those lucky, I simpler times were bygone with the era of upward mobility, of rising divorce rates and single-parent homes.

By a lucky chance I came across her in a poor and wretched street, and I was fortunate enough to insure her happiness.

I sometimes speak to him in my mind, and tell him how lucky I am and how kind you and Chad and Sam have been to me.

I told him that the only arrangement I would accept was the payment of the six thousand francs, and that they might think themselves very lucky that I did not insist on having my interest, and thus repaying myself in part for the sums they had cheated out of me.

We certainly find it preferable to nailing everyone into place with clientship and patronage for the benefit of those lucky enough to born to the right parents.