Sentence examples for small fluke from inspiring English sources

If that is true of a small fluke of chance, consider how much harder a writer would have to work to set up a scene that is wildly improbable even in real life.

"Adventure, new experience," Ms. Polidore said, gathering their bounty of sea robins and clamshells in a bucket to take back to camp, though conservation regulations required that small fluke be tossed back into the water.

"It's very telling, you know?" As the morning wore on and the kids caught a handful of small fluke, none "keepers," Greenberg talked about how, after his parents' divorce, his father would take him out fishing, part of what he calls "the divorced-dad weekends, where we did what he thought dads were supposed to do".

Her family, failing to get US visas, fled to England in April 1939, escaping among the last refugees by the "smallest fluke".

The prophylaxis of the small liver fluke has been difficult and unsatisfactory to date due to the complexity of its biological life cycle and epidemiology.

Despite its widespread presence among grazing ruminants, dicrocoeliosis, also known as "small liver fluke" disease, is poorly known and often underestimated by researchers and practitioners in many countries.

Microscopy showed small leaflike flukes 8 9 mm long and 2.5 3.5 mm wide.

To the Editor: Opisthorchis viverrini and Clonorchis sinensis, the 2 major species of small liver flukes (family Opisthorchiidae), cause chronic inflammation in the bile duct, which leads to cholangitis and cirrhosis of the liver, and are a predisposing factor for cholangiocarcinoma (1 ).

The biggest blue whales are longer than two city buses and heavier than a locomotive, and they're powered by relatively small flippers and tail flukes.

These very small changes are not a fluke.

Last year, that number hit the lowest point since the question was first asked — 9.1% — though statisticians caution the unusually small number could be a fluke.