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词汇 example_english_stroke-of-luck
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stroke of luck

collocation in English

meanings of strokeand luck


These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with stroke or luck.
stroke
noun
uk /strəʊk/ us /stroʊk/
a sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the brain, sometimes causing a loss of the ability to move particular parts of ...
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luck
noun[U]
uk /lʌk/ us /lʌk/
the force that causes things, especially good things, to happen to you by chance and not as a result of your own efforts ...
See more at luck


Examples of stroke of luck


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Before they started, there was a strokeofluck.
This strokeofluck, destiny or divine intervention has prompted our article.
A strokeofluck befalls us by chance - just happening to be in the right place at the right time.
It was a strokeofluck.
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If, by some strokeofluck, the economy should turn, it would be difficult to produce the coal required for industry.
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Occasionally one has a strokeofluck not in the political sense but in another sense.
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It was a sheer strokeofluck that it gained market access, which has made all the difference to that community.
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They lived on in the hope that they would have some strokeofluck.
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It was only by a strokeofluck that there was not serious injury or death among those on board.
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That has been a strokeofluck for the person who was given the opportunity to live in the bungalow.
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This country has had a strokeofluck.
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That has not come about by a strokeofluck.
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I should have thought in cases of this kind it would be better to adopt the principle of attaining long-term security rather than a short-term strokeofluck.
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That was an amazing strokeofluck because it pushed the hospital confrontation from the top of the news in every bulletin to item three, four or five.
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Happy accomplishes his mission by a strokeofluck.
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It was at this point that the team had yet another strokeofluck.
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By quite a strokeofluck, he was able to procure a radio frequency and transmitter for $201.
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But this wasn't a strokeofluck.
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In a strokeofluck, the vet has plenty of experience in child birth.
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But by a bad strokeofluck, his girlfriend suddenly shows up.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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