Sentence examples for unlikely winner from inspiring English sources

On paper it looks like an unlikely winner.

This week "The Voice" emerged as the unlikely winner of its own reality competition.

Some detailed number-crunching of our tables reveals a clear, albeit extremely unlikely, winner.

The rockers joined another unlikely winner, Nigel Farage, who appears to have lost the hipster vote.

Or any entry in the sports-film genre, where formula virtually demands an unlikely winner.

Hope slammed six glorious goals, including one unlikely winner from the boundary.

And San Jose, unlikely winners at RSL last week, may not be totally out of contention either.

The unlikely winners in Helmand are farmers who looked like fools this winter.

But they emerged from a three-quarter time huddle a changed team, kicking six goals to run out unlikely winners.

They then qualified for Euro '92 but were expelled as Yugoslavia disintegrated into war, replaced by the eventual, unlikely winners Denmark, against whom Bazdarevic had scored in qualifying.

The Giants were a surprise last year, and the Cardinals, the White Sox, the Marlins and the Diamondbacks were all unlikely winners in the last decade.