Sentence examples for has been a freak from inspiring English sources

And, well, "Candle in the Wind" has been a freak.

Scientists say there has been a freak event in Greenland this month: Nearly every part of the massive ice sheet that blankets the island suddenly started melting.

"It has been a freak year and the weather has been exceptional, but there appears to be something working not quite right with the drainage.

There had been a freak accident at the stock pens.

"These elections have been a freak show all over the country," said David Morgan, a retired Air Force officer, in Beckley, W.Va.

If the summer of 2003 had been a freak occurrence, northern Europeans may have been able to rest easy.

Natalia's disappearance seems to have been a freak accident that, unless her body is found, cannot be fully explained.

I did not believe that she was — or had been — a freak, but I could understand how some people might think so.

But in what appears to have been a freak accident, Mr Heselden has been found dead after apparently plunging 30ft over the side of a cliff while riding one of the machines he hoped would revolutionise the way we travel.

An anthrax scare that should have been a freak sidebar to 9/11 had been successfully manipulated to cement the case on Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction", make military action against Iraq compelling and isolate opponents of the war.

Although he would never admit as much, he is bored and even lonely, and that is why "Ripley's Game," which could have been a freak show, seems more like a portrait of evil making friends.