How To Use Fluke In A Sentence

Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
As may be imagined, this capture, not so much a fluke as a surprise gave me cause to rethink my fishing plans on the lake.
Before anyone says that this was going to happen anyway, remember that political pros were saying two years ago that Napolitano was a one term fluke, early this year Republicans were salivating about a possible 2/3 majority House and Senate, and it took some foresight to see that a decent candidate could be recruited to take out J. Archive 2006-12-01
The fish killed included bass, roach, eels and fluke when the temperature soared to twenty six degrees Centigrade.
The publication of Quantum Leaps is not a fluke; rather it is an exceptionally clear manifestation of the taint, stigma, and taboo surrounding the paranormal.

Charlie's condition is a fluke so the chance of any future siblings having it are just one in 50.
Each of the plurality of flukes may be provided with an inwardly sloped bill segment at a distal end of the fluke.
New york is sitting on the mother lode of fluke right now," says the DEC's Gilmore, "but we are restricted by the 1998 quota. Aram Roston: Deadliest Catch Brooklyn Style: The Fish You Catch in New York City
They" are the poachers who haunt those waters, men who catch more than the legal limit of fish -- striped bass, sea bass, fluke and blackfish (tautog) -- then sell them on the black market. Inside New York City's Fishy Black Market
Many thought last year was a fluke. Times, Sunday Times
Surely, something freakish would happen—a slow roller through the wickets, some fluke fly ball barely clearing the Green Monster, a sure groundout bouncing crazily around the infield—something confirming the Sox impending doom usually happened right about now. One Season
The Germans were lucky to beat Hungary in 1954, lucky to beat the Dutch in 1974 and fluked their way to the final in 2002. Truth takes a battering in the great World Cup cliche game
Each dinner sounded more delectable than the one before: roasted local grass-fed goat loin chops with farro-spinach salad and sweet onion soubise, kombu cured fluke with yuzu, brown butter, wakame and preserved nori, a dinner ... Not Eating Out in New York » 2009 » April
Calambokidis' team has photographed and recognized around 1,500 blue whales by tail fluke and back markings.
I left that meeting with the shooters confident my experience was simply a fluke, an accident that was so unlikely it never could happen again.
Over the course of the seven years that follow, Dana Scully risks her life investigating alien abduction cases, murders committed by genetic mutants like a man who eats livers and can stretch his body in improbable ways or a boy who is able to summon lightning or a giant flukeworm which has evolved to have a humanoid appearance and serial killers, some of whom may be incarnations of the devil. Epinions Recent Content for Home
Some organisms, such as flukes, have life cycles that take them literally through one or more host organisms, and many insects undergo significant metamorphic changes in bodily form through their life cycle. The Biological Notion of Individual
The here intended stocks extend only along a quarter of the fluke beam, thus not across the full beam of the anchor.
No matter what time of year I'm fishing, a fluke is the first bait I'll tie on. Flukin' Largemouth
He proved once and for all he's not a fluke, that he's willing to bust his striated glutes in the gym.
There go flukes!" cried the look-out as the whale dived and tossed its flukes, that is its tail, in the air, not more than a mile on the lee-bow; "she's heading right for the ship. The World of Ice
And you'll never know the joy that fans in the rest of the country will experience when the fluke happens and the Yankees lose this year.
HADLEY - If the graduation rate ever drops below 100 percent in Hadley, it's a fluke, said School Superintendent Nicholas D. Reader - MassLive.com
We should view the Prestige oil spill not as a fluke or one-time accident.
Happy accidents exist, but they are extremely rare, and they are almost always fluked by people who aren't professional photographers.
The fluke, a flatfish similar to flounder, scratched that special itch for me.
As Bethany's warnings continue to prove accurate beyond fluke and she begins to offer scientifically precise hints of a final, world-altering cataclysm, Gabrielle is confronted with a series of devastating choices in a world in which belief has become as precious - and as murderousas life itself. The Rapture by Liz Jensen: Book summary
The hottest Thai export since their famed curries, he will be insistent on proving that he is no one-year fluke, that he is as nerveless as he is graceful.
The fluke was a bit insipid, but then again this was a test-run: after this first experience, I'm willing to give anything Todd serves a second go.
It was a sheer fluke that no one was hurt in the bomb blast.
If these dudes had done something productive, a child in Africa probably wouldn't have died, or they'd have fluked the cure to cancer or something. VOTD: Spaced Slow-Mo Finger Gunfight Flashmob in London | /Film
Johnson has proven that his victory at the season opener was no fluke.
The medically important flatworms are further divided into the flukes and tapeworms (Cestoda).
So we're not buying Dover sole anymore, we're using fluke from [New York's] Long Island Sound, which is fresher and cheaper. America's Pasta Pusher
Regardless of its many knock-offs, the success of the Tomb Raider franchise seems to me to be a bit of a fluke.
Back in the Stone Age (or the Middle Ages, for that matter), the immunoglobulin E system had its hands full fighting off roundworms, tapeworms, hookworms, and flukes; it had no time for being precious about dust mites and cat hair.
I can fire random numbers at you until I fluke it if you want, but that's as good as you're going to get.
His failure in history examination was a mere fluke.
And when a game like The Sims comes along -- one which had significant design, development, and management contribution from women Will is the first to say this didn't spring from his forehead fully formed, despited EA's PR to the contrary -- despite the fact that it breaks all sales records it is often considered to be a fluke, inscrutable from the narrow, classically young-white-single-male developer POV. Burn baby burn
It was a complete fluke that she survived. Times, Sunday Times
Here we are, smoothly bringing the tail down with the fluke adjusted to just the right angle of attack, when - bang!
Intestinal Fluke (Heterophyes) - Humans and other mammals become infected with the digenetic trematode by eating contaminated raw or undercooked fish. Undefined
We won the football game by a fluke.
Prior to Election Day, there was a widespread belief that the outcome of the 2000 Election was a fluke, an aberration, that would correct itself, as a sort of natural purgative process, in 2004.
In 1994, they had to withdraw after Roca broke her wrist in a fluke warmup collision.
There are no flukey wins, no lucky 1-0 victories where an outclassed side gets a break and then spends the rest of the game defending it.
Millwall haven't fluked their way into the final and the Reds could have an off day.
Rose Hall, for instance, built within the Time Warner Center in 2003, is one of the best multiuse spaces in the city, but by some fluke of ventilation ducts it smells like a Blimpie. Staging A Redesign
I made it 2-0 in the second half with a fluke of a goal. The Sun
The finals-clinching game, far from a free-wheeling exchange of firepower, was deadlocked at 1-1 for hours and ended, at last, on a fluke goal from the rear-guarding libero, of all people.
Primary common bile duct stones are more common in Asian populations because of the increased prevalence of flukes and parasitic infections, such as clonorchiasis, fascioliasis and ascariasis.
Random flukes and quirks such as interlocked arms (which also leave you wide open) keep things spicy, but never feel unrealistic. Computer And Video Games
Passing the exam was a real fluke he didn't work for it at all.
It was a complete fluke that she survived. Times, Sunday Times
Gulp catches all species had a lot of succes with the minnow zoom is great for smallmouth the fluke and lizard What is the best type of rubber bait - Yum!, Gulp!, Powerbait, or Gary Yamamoto?
She obviously views him very positively.....12/02/2006 12:25:00 AM|W|P| Anonymous|W|P|"political pros were saying 2 years ago that Napolitano was a 1 term fluke ... Archive 2006-12-01
Similar to the patterns on humpback whale flukes, unique markings on the dolphins' dorsal fins allow for individual identification.
Clams and skates and croakers and jellyfish and fluke and toadfish and anything else with gills surrounded by water are all wild. Wild clams
Each dinner sounded more delectable than the one before: roasted local grass-fed goat loin chops with farro-spinach salad and sweet onion soubise, kombu cured fluke with yuzu, brown butter, wakame and preserved nori, a dinner with a puppetry theatre accompaniment, an Argentinian asado of grilled offal, a backyard barbecue of grilled flank steak with chimicurri and chorizo. Reason for Not Eating Out #31: Because Supper Clubs are Blowing Up
Many whales are alive today, and they swim by dorsoventral undulation of their tail flukes.
The nicks and notches in the fluke and dorsal fin help with identification, and the photos go into a photo ID catalogue which helps determine population size and migration patterns.
Passing the exam was a real fluke he didn't work for it at all.
We also witnessed humpback whales blowing and diving, breaching and slapping their fins and flukes.
Their first goal was a fluke but after that you have to make sure that you get something. The Sun
There's a huge amount of fluke and chance and accident.
Through our glasses we made him out to be a bull -- an old greyhead, and probably a cunning fellow, one likely to try every dodge which a whale can think of to escape, and if failing to do that, and hard pressed, one who was likely to turn on his pursuers, and attack them with his open jaws or mighty flukes. Old Jack
If functionalism is false, then the success of the cognitive sciences is a massive scientific fluke.
It was as neat and as well-worked a Hibs' goal was flukey, and summed up the difference between the teams.
The fluke was the goal. The Sun
His failure in history examination was a mere fluke.
Williams outrageously fluked the green in the last frame of the session, but only won it after trapping O'Brien in a snooker on the pink behind the black.
She was lucky enough to get the job by a fluke.
Remember, it's sheer fluke that put you where you now are. The Sun
The pectoral fins and flukes of males are also larger than those of females.
Use of a narrow spectrum drug rather than a combined fluke and worm drench helps reduce the usage of the broad spectrum wormers and slow the onset of anthelmintic resistance. Chapter 5
Liver fluke rendered bathing in rivers hazardous. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
He returns to the course tomorrow in a bid to prove that his latest effort was no fluke.
The oscar was a fluke. .theres a reason hes now making movies like Snow Dogs 3. Comic Book Movie
The goal was no fluke. The Sun
In no living thing are the lines of beauty more exquisitely defined than in the crescentic borders of these flukes. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Anyone with fond memories of fluke jollities such as National Express and Something for the Weekend will be flummoxed by Absent Friends's Jacques Brelian melodrama.
Pile said the fire was a fluke occurrence and doesn't indicate a problem with the submarines.
Liver fluke rendered bathing in rivers hazardous. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Most top athletes despise the notion of luck, with its amateurish connotations of fluke and happenstance.
It may be that the precipitate fall in the last survey - widely regarded in both the radio and advertising industries as a glitch - is no fluke.
Their first goal was a fluke but after that you have to make sure that you get something. The Sun
If Helena's experience wasn't a fluke, something similar should have happened in other jurisdictions with smoking bans.
Spurs fans will be getting excited now they've fluked a win and there's not a pensioner in sight in the forwards.
Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail.
In 1994, they had to withdraw after Roca broke her wrist in a fluke warmup collision.
Bilharzia Fluke and other soil- transmitted worms have affected two million Zambians, the southern African country's health minister said here Monday.
This is one of the critical times of the year when action should be taken to treat cattle for the control of fluke and worms.
But we need more stories about those things, because otherwise the First Girl is like Alanna: an exception, a fluke, a special person who gets exempted from the rules of her sex. First Girl Ever at SF Novelists
Remember, it's sheer fluke that put you where you now are. The Sun
And the chief mate, whose duty it is to keep the ship's record, generally prides himself upon the beauty, and flushy likeness to life, of his flukes; though, sooth to say, many of these artists are no Landseers. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
The confidence is brewing in Southern California, and the Bolts are out to prove last year's surprise was less fluke and more the start of a trend.
She is not usually good at table tennis; that winning stroke was a fluke.
Position of control surfaces (ie., flippers, fin, flukes, peduncle) provides a generally stable design with respect to an arrow model.
This was associated with infection by a flatworm or fluke infection called Ribeiroia, which formed cysts near the hind legs.
If the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain-cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finder's craft, or stock new navies to the end of time. Cape Cod
He hopes firstly it will lay to rest lingering suggestions that the 35-year-old's success last year was a fluke. Times, Sunday Times
It was a complete fluke, and could have happened to anyone. The Sun
Clearly it was just an accident of history, a fluke, a momentary incursion of an otherwise universal pandemic.
She is such a tiny filly but her Oaks second was no fluke. The Sun
Heart aside, this isn't some fluky run - okay, it was clearly a fluke that they beat the Canucks - but since then they've taken the toughest route to the Cup of any team in years.
Having said that, on the seabed to the port side of the bows lies a large iron pendant, perhaps the remains of an anchor with broken flukes.
Trevisio served seared tuna with jicama, arugula and baby grapefruit, while 17 Restaurant dished up marinated fluke with citrus and shaved beet salad.
Trematode worms - or "flukes" - commonly afflict mollusks today, and these invaders often use mollusks as intermediate hosts in their life cycles. Wired Top Stories
He was not successful in his early life at home, where business is a harder ordeal, and with fewer of the "flukes" that cross the path in young colonies. Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
By some terrific fluke Richard came face to face with his future at the precise time he most needed to see it.
The best reason for optimism with regard to German cinema right now, and a reason we can hope without feeling foolish that 2006 has not been some fluke, is that successes have been spread all up and down the scales, from the box office smashes made by populist entertainments like Perfume and the World Cup documentary Deutschland. GreenCine Daily: Random bullet-point-fire. 2006.
Primary common bile duct stones are more common in Asian populations because of the increased prevalence of flukes and parasitic infections, such as clonorchiasis, fascioliasis and ascariasis.
I made it 2-0 in the second half with a fluke of a goal. The Sun
And there was nothing flukey about the results obtained.
The discovery was something of a fluke.
And Morel, the third star of the film, proves that the success of Taken was no fluke and that while the diehard Dune fans may be entering ulcer city right now, the rest of us may be witnessing the birth of a new kind of genre blockbuster helmer — the anti-Michael Bay, perhaps, in that he guiltlessly eschews dwelling on things like character and story, but not to the point of ruination. From Paris With Love Review | CurveHouse.com
For many of us, success and failure turn on lucky breaks and fluke occurrences - starting most importantly with the accident of birth.
Whales have streamlike bodies with highly compressed neck vertebrae, dorsal fins, and a tail with two finlike flukes arranged horizontally.
In Asia the species is known to host parasitic lung flukes, which can infect humans if the crabs are eaten undercooked.
Seafood specialties like halibut, fluke, and grouper and the unique world of micro greens have done much to influence his opinion of American food culture.
It was found that the antagonist picrotoxin was unable to block the liver fluke to the excitatory effect of GABA, while it could partially block the roundworm to the inhibitory effect of GABA.
Many thought last year was a fluke. Times, Sunday Times
February's figures cannot plausibly be blamed on flukes or special factors.
Washington is starting to write off the Democrats 'chances in Hawaii's 1st because of a hopelessly fluked and flawed special election, in which the party had brawled over which candidate to support as voters, for the first time, cast mail-in ballots in an all-party election. Cook: GOP chances up in Hawaii's 1st, down in Pennsylvania's 12th
His failure in history examination was a mere fluke.
And then he drops into the depths of the moral subconsciousness from which the clear, clean waters of Walden Pond could not wash him: If the roadsteads of the spiritual ocean could be thus dragged, what rusty flukes of hope deceived and parted chain-cables of faith might again be windlassed aboard! enough to sink the finders craft, or stock new navies to the end of time. Theocritus on Cape Cod
One day while traveling in a plane over the pampa, Ms. Yraizoz noticed a farm that, through a fluke of topography, looked a bit like a milking pail from the air, her children say. Maybe Graciela Sees It From Heaven, This Huge Guitar Made of Trees
The flukes will be buried into the seabed. The very tip of a fluke is sometimes called the bill.
Villagers grab the line around the fluke of the whale and haul away with shouts and laughter.
To lose to a flukey goal like that is disappointing but that's how it's going for us at present.
That suggests that the Washington Post poll, which reported a figure of 21%, was not a fluke or an "outlier," as Joe and pollster-folk like to call aberrant polls that you can't trust. 20% of adults self-identify as Republican
The fluke was the goal. The Sun
I made it 2-0 in the second half with a fluke of a goal. The Sun
The film posits a future in which a genetic fluke has produced psychics who can reliably predict murder.
I would have had more time to socialise but I started playing pool and by some fluke couldn't seem to put a ball wrong.
He agreed that the second goal was a fluke.
It was a complete fluke that she survived. Times, Sunday Times
The drunken spree lasted for years after the conflict and I allowed the feeling of our national invincibility to pervade me (to such an extent that our defeats in Bataan, Corregidor and Pearl Harbor became "just a fluke"). Dr. Paul Ashton
That it was a left-footer had fluke written all over it. Times, Sunday Times
Her parents thought Wax's success was a fluke. Times, Sunday Times
He will be a fine knight, if his show at the mock battle was not a fluke.
Millwall haven't fluked their way into the final and the Reds could have an off day.
Just because it is set on flat, not upright: and learned men will tell you that those two flukes are the "rudiments" -- that is, either the beginning, or more likely the last remains -- of two hind feet. Madam How and Lady Why
The eels from the limed river carried inside them a much richer diversity of tapeworms, flukes, and other parasites. Parasite Rex
Wherever certain species of snails lived, in ditches or ponds or streams, parasitologists came across free-swimming animals that looked like small versions of flukes except that they had great tails attached to their rears. Parasite Rex
His failure in history examination was a mere fluke.
The goal was no fluke. The Sun
It's unclear if the bigger jump in unemployment for black workers is a short-term fluke, said Postbulletin.com Local News
The first goal was just a fluke.
The fluke was the goal. The Sun
He hopes firstly it will lay to rest lingering suggestions that the 35-year-old's success last year was a fluke. Times, Sunday Times
She is such a tiny filly but her Oaks second was no fluke. The Sun
The twisting action allows the animal to use the flukes in conjunction with the peduncle as a rudder.
He hopes firstly it will lay to rest lingering suggestions that the 35-year-old's success last year was a fluke. Times, Sunday Times
It was a bit of a fluke, but they were there at the end when the more fancied runners weren't. Times, Sunday Times
It is not an eminently ideal or sportsmanlike sort of fishing, this "jagging," but it possesses a marvellous enjoyment and fascination for the youth of ten, and older people as well; for a full-grown salmon is a powerful fellow, and his big, fluke-like tail enables him to make a terrific rush when under the influence of terror or when chasing his prey. A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904
They have two concentrated drenches for the control of Fluke & worms in cattle.
We have six humpback whales who are individually recognisable by their tail flukes.
Passing the exam was a real fluke he didn't work for it at all.
Hanging from the centre of the dome is an anchor shape with red and green lanterns at the end of the anchor flukes.
This was shown as an animal with a long snaky body, with flippers and smallish flukes on the tail.
A fluke, for example, hatches into a delicate form covered with hairlike cilia that swim in search of a snail; a couple of generations later, a cercaria emerges from the snail to find its mammal host. Parasite Rex
We won the football game by a fluke.
Ambulocetus is cited as showing that spinal undulation evolved in whales before development of a tail fluke, but that claim was made when only one lumbar and one caudal vertebra were known.
But 'humpy' is almost spent, and though by a mighty effort he 'ups flukes,' and sounds, he soon rises, for the killers thrust him upwards to the surface again. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899
He said: 'It was no fluke where we are but we want to improve. The Sun
For the record, they won, with a spectacular, but flukey, 25 yard shot.
Branchiopod characters include endites with setae turned backwards, the elongation of the telson, and its fluke-shaped rami.
With flounder, sole, fluke, turbot, halibut, bass, trout, John Dory or orange roughy, we must tread lightly, especially with regard to bitterness.
It was a complete fluke, and could have happened to anyone. The Sun
We also witnessed humpback whales blowing and diving, breaching and slapping their fins and flukes.
Maybe she had done one of them beforehand or maybe she fluked it.
She is not usually good at table tennis; that winning stroke was a fluke.
In the livers of sick sheep were lodged parasites in the shape of leaves, called flukes after their resemblance to flounder floc in Anglo-Saxon. Parasite Rex
Faine, 6-foot-3, 291 pounds, missed the last two games last season after what he called a fluke injury when his right biceps snapped during a block. USATODAY.com - Notes: Eagles deal H. Thomas, Hicks; Browns ask about Harrington
'fluked' and the crew are tossed high in air, with their boat crushed into matchwood, or meets with some other disaster. A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904
West Ham gave it both barrels, as they say in cockney crime caper films, but somehow Liverpool fluked another trophy thanks to Steven Gerrard's heroics.
It was just last week I so cavalierly wrote them off as a fluke and the likely team to slip out of the playoff picture in the rugged Western Conference.
Rather than dismiss it as a fluke, they will try every way possible to find it.
Sununu's abysmal numbers suggest that 2006 was not a fluke, but potentially a long-term realignment in the state. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Two New Polls Show Sununu Extremely Vulnerable In New Hampshire
I have found freshwater dips for Marine fish effective at clearing flukes from infected fish.
Is it therefore logical to think blind, unintelligent, mindless nature could have stumbled on Einstein and us by sheer fluke?
Sounding like a dish right out of Bennigan's, puffed-rice-crusted fluke is an unexpected rush, the crust lending the fish the nutty appeal of the meatier pompano.
Remember, it's sheer fluke that put you where you now are. The Sun
For some in his side, Scotland simply fluked a win that condemned their country to only a second defeat in 17 matches.
Dr. Hough said seismologists have long known that what is referred to as topographic amplification can occur, but it has often been dismissed as "kind of a fluke thing. NYT > Home Page
Fish do scratch, and this does not mean they are infested with gill flukes.
Water flowed down the erect tail, or flukes, to give the impression of a whale diving in the sea.
She is such a tiny filly but her Oaks second was no fluke. The Sun
He said: 'It was no fluke where we are but we want to improve. The Sun
‘My modeling career was a bit of a fluke,’ she says.
He said the sculpture would depict a whale with its flukes, or tail, raised in the air but could not say what size the sculpture would be.
On Vanderlin, rubbish left by Asiatics: a wooden anchor with one fluke, three boat rudders of violet wood, remains of blue cotton trousers.
In the livers of sick sheep were lodged parasites in the shape of leaves, called flukes after their resemblance to flounder floc in Anglo-Saxon. Parasite Rex
Fruits are lethal for snails, some aquatic life including bilharzia fluke.
They had been "fluked" by the bull-whale, whose fan-shaped tail-fins, striking the boat in an upward direction, had shattered it as easily as an eggshell, tossing the fragments, along with the contents, both animate and inanimate, several feet into the air. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
It was a complete fluke, and could have happened to anyone. The Sun
Her parents thought Wax's success was a fluke. Times, Sunday Times
When we got it last year we felt it was a bit of a fluke but then we turned around and did it two years on the trot.
The Cape Town team is currently lying mid-table and will be desperate to prove their cup success last season was no fluke.

How To Use Fluke In A Sentence

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