Sentence examples for Freak chance from inspiring English sources

After acting school and a long apprenticeship, Hoffman became famous overnight at 30 after what he describes as the freak chance to play the 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock in "The Graduate" (1967).

The ASA worked out that the chances that the Health Lottery, which carries payout insurance against the freak chance of a huge number of weekly winners, would not be able to pay the top prize was 0.0096%.

By some freak chance of fate and the kindness of strangers, I published two articles in the magazine stemming from stories that I came across while working at a Toronto hospital.

If by some freak chance you give them world-class athletic genes, they love the sport enough to work incredibly hard, and they get the right kind of support from you, and they become professional or Olympic athletes, then that's just icing on the cake.

Shall we play a conservative game hold down the score and play to look good or shall we gamble, depending on a freak chance to win but losing by a big score if we fail?" After he joined the Chicago Bears' staff, sportswriter Roger Treat said, "I always looked upon Clark Shaughnessy as a conscientious idealist who might better have followed the trail of Father Flanagan of Boys Town.

I had the quintessential New York slice joint in 11B, and the best of all Roman pizzas in Gnocco, and la vera pizza Napolitana at Motorino which is there should you chose by some freak chance to go there instead of Gnocco.

It was the Daily Mail and Sky News that in one of the freak chances came out ahead in the tombola.

It's also right for religion to concede ground to science to explain natural processes; but at the same time, science has to concede that despite its huge advances it still cannot answer questions about the nature of the universe - such as whether we are freak chances of evolution in an indifferent cosmos (Dawkins does finally acknowledge this point in the programmes).

Even if you aren't a total music freak, chances are you have a friend who is and whose taste you admire.

One, if you're under the age of 35 and playing guitar, and not a full-on Dimebag Darrell freak, chances are, this Kurt guy is (rightly) Elvis Presley to you.

But two things ought to give him pause for thought.The first is that last year's election was something of a post-Lewinsky freak: the chances of the next election being a referendum on morality are small.