Sentence examples for fluke of a from inspiring English sources

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Pakistan 70-1 (Younis c Read b Mahmood 9) England get a complete fluke of a wicket.

A fluke of a shot from Lu, which lands right in the corner, takes the scoreboard to 40-15.

Away at Manchester City, Andy Thorn scored the Crazy Gang's first-ever top flight goal, a curling fluke of a free-kick from the touchline, but within 10 minutes of taking the lead, the Dons were 3-1 down.

The size of even a juvenile whale makes it dangerous for the relatively puny humans who must work around it; imagine getting whacked by the fluke of a struggling, 10-tonne right whale.

But the prospect of an unpopular Labour leader governing by the fluke of a vastly greater conservative force split between Tories, Ukip and Cleggite Lib Dems is not heart-warming.

The fluke of a retrospective in Warsaw and Berlin in 1927 left nearly seventy works by Malevich in the West — among them the Museum of Modern Art's talismanic "White on White" (1918), a cool white square on a warm white ground.

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Often this is just a fluke of fate, a result of an accident, serendipity.

Unlike better teams, DC didn't punish the Revs, except for a fluke of an own goal.

When he was neck-in-neck with Romney in Iowa, I thought it was the fluke of an ultra-conservative caucus system.

It was a fluke of topography, a happenstance of pressure, time and wind.

For example, the flukes of a dolphin are thrust producers while the body causes drag.

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