Sentence examples for freak cases from inspiring English sources
Only in freak cases where it bounces in from a deflection is it wrong.
Although I often write about freak cases – one of my collections is named after a woman who claimed to give birth to rabbits – it's because of what they reveal about the ordinary.
In freak cases, variants on the abuse excuse continue to prevail: just last month, the Indiana Supreme Court recognised battered-wife syndrome as a legitimate defence (not just a mitigating factor) against a criminal charge of neglecting a child.
(In a few freak cases where one has stumbled, the sponsor has stepped in to make up the loss).
"It's those freak cases where things get especially dangerous. .
All the recent shootings of young kids were just freak cases, they told us.
When my first novel was published there was a small and helpful burst of accompanying publicity which, nevertheless, caused me to feel suddenly exposed, examined and poised on the lip of some horrible pit of compensatory doom: today the Guardian profile, tomorrow the freak case of galloping leprosy/lycanthropy/demonic possession.
Would this be a freak case?
Mitton's is no freak case of overdoing a tax deferral.
Instead of teasing each other over broken New Year's resolutions, we took turns camping by my mother's bedside in the heart and vascular ICU, praying she would recover from a life-threatening pneumonia, a freak case of Legionnaire's disease.
