Sentence examples for one fluke from inspiring English sources

The new land is too muddy and slushy for people to safely live on, and the force of the Himalayan rivers is so powerful that it can wash away newly gained land in one fluke season.

But if this was Mayweather's plan it was an uncharacteristically risky one, not least because it would require Mayweather to do something that he hadn't done (barring one fluke) in almost a decade: score a knockout.

"I'm not sure it's even a different battle, it's just an ongoing one," Fluke said.

The stock ensures that the arms rest vertically on the seabed, and thus one fluke will dig itself in, providing maximum holding power.

Here's my son fighting a five-pound bluefish: Not squeamish, they let no learning experience go by, examining the stomach contents of their catch — anchovies and herring for the blues and tiny calico crabs for one fluke — seemingly as eagerly as they reeled in the fish.

Yet, in that year, the Bucs drew almost exactly as many fans as the 1992 club that won the National League East and was one fluke Francisco Cabrera single away from the World Series.

In fact, I was trying to sell a book before this one fluked out.

But to suddenly find yourself in that same small vessel above a fleet, 40-foot-long midsea mastodon — one whose fluke alone could, with a cursory flip, send you and your boat soaring skyward — is to know the pure, wonderfully edgeless fear of complete acquiescence.

So the question naturally becomes: Was game one a fluke, or the start of a trend?

Pharoah, or AP as the fans have started calling him, has lost once in four races — "His first one, a fluke," Baffert says — and was the 2014 Eclipse Award winner as the champion 2-year-old.

That popular segment shone a bright light on acrobatics, one-handed flukes and downright showboating.