We'd had poor luck for a week and more, and no food amongst us left to speak of.

"Gus does have poor luck with wives," he added.

"But you seem to be having such poor luck," said the magician.

"They had the damned poor luck to show up when I was working at the computer core."

We had had poor luck with our fishing, possibly because neither one of us was from a maritime nation.

To have found four gold bars would have seemed poor and cheap good luck compared to this.

Lenny is a persistent bachelor who has poor luck with women.

But the empire has always had poor luck in South Africa, and never worse than on that occasion.

His poor luck needed changing, so he would spend more money.

However, missed chances and poor luck eventually saw County out.