How to Use fluky in a Sentence

fluky

adjective

• The Tigers managed to score a fluky run in the top of the eighth.
  — Paul Johnson, Elgin Courier-News, 10 June 2019
• Chimera got the Islanders on the scoreboard with a fluky goal.
  — Orange County Register, 21 Jan. 2017
• But there is nothing fluky about the Chiefs, who are 9-0 and ranked No.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2018
• But the painful and fluky ending of Game 6 of that Cup Final stuck to him.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• Due to fluky scheduling, the Cougars played their first five games at home in Pullman.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
• The flukiest anomaly of the first three weeks is the Broncos’ lack of a single takeaway or sack.
  — Gary Gramling, SI.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• Perhaps the flukiest result of Week 10, Brees was unable to get the Saints in the end zone at the Superdome.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2019
• Well, the Rams have beaten the Seahawks in the past, but often there were fluky elements to those games.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Two of the three losses came at the hands of powerhouse Ohio State, and a third was a fluky setback against Illinois.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2019
• Washington’s only touchdown of the day came in the first quarter on a fluky 65-yard run play from Steven Sims.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• The Islanders tied the game in the second period on a fluky goal from Brassard, who slipped a shot past Bishop on the near post.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2020
• McCann scored on a fluky play in which a clear attempt ricocheted off him and into the net.
  — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• This wasn't a fluky loss, or bad officiating, or a goofy play.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2019
• Fifty-three more of those yards came on a completely fluky play down the left sideline, when the ball bounced off Terrance Mitchell’s chest and into the hands of Zach Ertz.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 19 Sep. 2017
• As a result, lucky saves and fluky errors can be the deciding factor in many hockey games.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• Eric Murray saved a touchdown on a wild and fluky play down the left sideline just before halftime.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 17 Sep. 2017
• In essence, that has weeded out the cheap speed horses who had no shot to win, making it a truer run race with fewer fluky elements.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2018
• Both clubs benefited from fluky circumstances to score runs in a 51-pitch, 39-minute first inning.
  — Jorge Castillo, latimes.com, 14 July 2019
• The Giants’ bats were mostly held in check again Saturday, and this time, there was no dramatic rally or fluky play in the outfield coming to the rescue.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 20 July 2019
• In a fluky coincidence, Auerbach had connections to Nike co-founder Phil Knight.
  — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2019
• Against Vegas, this involved stomaching a fluky Game 1 loss in which Ovechkin had an assist but only managed two shots on goal.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 11 June 2018
• That sure seems fluky and might indicate the Cowboys defense is better than appearances.
  — Jesse Newell, kansascity, 2 Mar. 2018
• The recent bout of soft numbers (including today's) are fluky, in her view, and not something that's about to disrupt the course of monetary policy.
  — WSJ, 14 June 2017
• The Islanders tied it with a fluky goal that deflected off multiple Capitals players with 7:33 left.
  — Vin A. Cherwoo, baltimoresun.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• Those are the kinds of fluky occurrences that have made no-hitters so exciting and rare: There is inherently an element of luck involved.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 9 May 2018
• Traditionalists bemoan the reducing of a season’s worth of gains and falters to a single fluky set of nine innings, while adrenaline junkies love it for the same reason.
  — Robert O'Connell, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2017
• There’s still room for hot starts to go cold and slumps to turn into streaks, but with seven weeks’ worth of action in the books, numbers are beginning to normalize, and aberrant production—or a lack thereof—no longer feels fluky.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 20 May 2018
• Every dog has his day, just like every pro player, even the most lumbering defender, has the ability to change the fate of his nation’s sporting aspirations with a fluky swing of his foot.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
• There always has been a rather simple explanation for that trend: Unless the Derby produces some kind of fluky result, the fastest horse on the first Saturday in May is likely to remain the fastest horse two weeks later.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 16 May 2018
• Betances is gone again after sustaining a fluky partial tear of his left Achilles’ tendon during his season debut on Sunday.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019

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