Sentence examples for for a fluke from inspiring English sources

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

… Even with that, the Seahawks may have won if not for a fluke play.

Wall is 5 feet 8 inches, 142 pounds, and possesses a natural instinct for the game she began playing at 5. Talent notwithstanding, Wall would not have made it to Salt Lake City were it not for a fluke.

Even with that, the Seahawks may have won if not for a fluke play where Richard Sherman, perhaps the best cornerback in the game, uncharacteristically fell down in coverage, leading to a 47-yard touchdown by Roddy White, more than accounting for the final difference in the score.

The 1998 election of Mr. Holt, a liberal Democrat, was considered something of a fluke for a district that had traditionally leaned Republican.

Basilosaurids have a nasal opening that has shifted back far toward the eyes to form a blowhole and have flippers for forelimbs, a fluke at the end of the tail, and tiny hind limbs, too tiny to support the body weight on land.

And the fact that Glenn Beck is a Mormon and the Mormons have a long and recent overt racist history (only Johnny-come-lately apologized for) is just a fluke too as Beck's emerged as the loudest of the Obama-isn't-one-of-us-prophets-for-profit.

For one thing, that the awfulness of the writer Leigh Dunlap's 2004 script for "A Cinderella Story" was not a fluke, and for another, that clichés like the sassy best friend and the domineering dad-hyphen-coach are still as tired as they were when John McEnroe was a pup.

Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke.

But a player's getting hit in the face with a flag, or anywhere on his body for that matter, is a fluke.

Miller, a senior who has spent his entire life in College Station, understands that it is a fluke for him to share a position in the same city as one of the most famous and polarizing athletes in the country.