Sentence examples for by a freak wave from inspiring English sources

"It may also have been swamped by a freak wave".

They also dismissed earlier speculation by officials in Iran and Oman that the damage had been caused by a "freak wave".

An 85-year-old man died on Friday after the 22,000-tonne Marco Polo cruise ship was hit by a freak wave in the English Channel.

I just happened to be passing through the room when Harold Bishop was swept off a rock by a freak wave.

Maritime security experts and port officials in the Middle East had raised the possibility that the tanker had collided with a submarine, hit a degraded sea mine — perhaps left over from the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s — or had even been hit by a "freak wave" — a theory quickly discarded once investigators began to examine the damage to the ship.

Russell Crowe has an anecdote about sitting in a screening wearing sodden zip-ups back in 1991, and Bruce Willis got splashed by a freak wave in 2006 – but for a couple of decades straight, at least, this festival was a dry deal, screenings and parties staged outdoors, everyone "cooked to a turn" (as F Scott Fitzgerald described the local way of sunbathing).

Dozens of theories have been offered over the years, but this latests one involving waves was first proffered in 1995, when a freak wave of 18.5 metres was measured in the North Sea by satellites.

Most likely, Dad says, a freak wave knocked her overboard.

The day of Claire's disappearance had begun with "a freak wave" that killed another of the town's fishermen.

A Jewish grandmother is sitting on the beach with her beloved grandson when a freak wave sweeps him out to sea, where he is instantly devoured by the ocean.

An 85-year-old man died after a freak wave hit a British cruise ship in the English Channel.