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How to use luckless in a sentence

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As the sun beat down on Sicily last summer, there was the traditional water shortage and the luckless residents of Palermo knew who to blame.
Poetry, being one of those luckless art forms whose practitioners remain in constant danger of outnumbering their audience, is rarely news.
If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you hairless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it!
He was living in New York by that stage, opening one luckless restaurant after another and putting on weight, but still attracting young women.
But luckless Paul, 40, is refusing to allow his spirits to wane and is looking optimistically to the future.
The luckless spy spent most of the war in prisons and internment camps eking out a living as a stool pigeon.
Before that I'd been living directly opposite, in a luckless bivouac best forgotten, sharing with two couples.
But collectively they present a hazy picture of a luckless dreamer with unfortunate amatory judgment.
In the film, Reeves plays a luckless, down-at-heel gambler heavily in debt to the bookies.
At the end of his dive, woe betide any luckless invertebrate in the path of his trawl net.
It's mind-boggling to think that, a mere four years before, Hendrix had been a luckless session player.
She remains, as she always has been, a pleasant, thoughtful young woman, but the luckless Schnyder found her in mean mood.
The Master, James, finally dies only after he has succeeded in frightening his luckless victim into dying first.
As the train stayed stubbornly put, she began mentally to sketch out a story about a luckless orphan who became a wizarding hero.
A freak goal 10 minutes from time consigned luckless Lancaster City to a sixth successive league defeat at Giant Axe on Saturday.
I'm not knocking the luckless officer, who is going to be in trouble whether or not he had a beer.
But few policyholders will find themselves in the perilous state shared by her luckless investors.
As you leave the wreck, look out for squid hovering on the edge of your boat's pool of light, waiting for luckless fish who are also attracted by the glare.
Who wouldn't stand aside, to give precedence to the luckless creator of so many worthy women?
I'm one of those luckless Hillary men, my once-sought after green bracelet now as worthless as a fat fistful of lira.
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From this extremity there is but one means of escape, and one alone, for the luckless prisoner.
To retreat at all is humiliation, but to retreat as this luckless army did was agony.
What if some luckless farmer should have his home burned from around him or his horded tobacco and corn destroyed?
For the tudors were singularly luckless in the matter of children.
Who is the one-eyed and luckless son of shame that has not yet prepared my pipe?
Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast, for which he paid full dear!
But alas for the luckless Linlay, the Delsarte of his day, poor man!
Mishap, desertion, and shipwreck pursued the luckless commander.
Neipperg and the generality of them, in that luckless silesian Business?
Ye did beget this luckless child, and have abandoned him, ye creative libertines.
Aurelia's share of the modest Sawyer property had been put into one thing after another by the handsome and luckless Lorenzo de Medici.
Her nets were so well laid that the luckless suitors were all caught, and succumbed to the test she applied to them without their knowledge.
So the luckless Harold was hauled out of bed and given his sailing-orders.
As for the luckless idols, they received more hard knocks than supplications.
Yes, cold and insensible Nymph, that luckless swain your Brother, is no more, and you may now glory in being the Heiress of Sir Edward's fortune.
Nathless now and again some luckless fellow would shoot awry and would be sent winding from a long arm blow from the tall lieutenant while the glade roared with laughter.
Misbah survived two chances, one on 17 and the other on 20 as fielders failed to reach uppish shots with Ish Sodhi the luckless bowler on both occasions.
They cheered the boy, and they hooted and jeered at the trainer and the manager, which luckless individual had inadvertently shown himself and attempted to assist the trainer.
Unknown to himself, the luckless Athanase had had an occasion to fling an ember of his own fire upon the pile of brush gathered in the heart of the old maid.
He sent a rapid glance through the half-open door of the chamber, and, ascertaining that what I stated was apparently true, delivered the house of his luckless presence.
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