Sentence examples for that a freak from inspiring English sources

It may be that a freak chain of events set of the links we see.

"However, as New Zealand is an island in a large body of water and the next greatest land mass south is Antarctica, there are no guarantees that a freak winter storm couldn't pass through".

The reality – that he might as well put the message in a bottle, instruct an underling to leave the ground to chuck it in the ocean, and hope that a freak tidal wave washes it on to the pitch before full time – is studiously ignored.

An official inquiry has found that a freak storm caused the sinking of a cruise ship on China's Yangtze river with the death of nearly 450 people and recommended the captain be investigated for possible crimes, state media said on Wednesday.

For example, suppose that a freak gust of wind blows the arrow off-course, but then a second freak gust of wind happens to blow it back on course again.

Last year at almost precisely this time we had Tropical Storm Irene that became a freak snow storm that downed endless trees and caused huge flooding.

That was a freak occurrence, a preposterous phenomenon that will never happen again, like that volcanic ash malarkey or David Nugent's international cap.

That was a freak event, but a reminder that no maillot jaune is ever secure until Paris is reached.

"That is a freak accident," Mr. McCulloh said of the possibility that Ms. Miskell's harness frayed.

"That was a freak play," Marbury said of his gaffe.

It snowed early that year: a freak blizzard, a beautiful anomaly.