Flukes in a sentence

A humpback whale’s flukes as seen from the deck of the Western Flyer in Monterey Bay.

One-point triumphs over France in the quarter-final could be written off as flukes were it not for the fact that every four years, the Springboks prove that they are tournament animals with ice running through their veins.

While in cattle, flukes will migrate to the liver where the adults will mate and produce eggs, which then exit through the bile ducts into the small intestine.

You decide which ones are credible and which ones are flukes.

A humpback whale that is missing its tail and was spotted in Washington state’s inland waters likely lost its iconic flukes after becoming entangled, possibly in some kind of line or fishing gear, experts say.

A juvenile humpback whale was spotted off Rancho Palos Verdes on Saturday, July 13. The animal was entangled in rope that went around it tail and partially impacted one of its flukes.

One of the stone anchors was broken but appeared to be equipped with two wooden flukes.

Fatma Ayancik et al, Three-dimensional scaling laws of cetacean propulsion characterize the hydrodynamic interplay of flukes' shape and kinematics, Journal of The Royal Society InterfaceDOI: 10.1098/rsif.

Team executive Billy Beane has long described the playoffs as a craps shoot because they are prone to small sample size results and flukes.

After a few successful cuts, the flukes were freed from the head allowing the whale to swim.

A humpback whale shows its flukes while feeding in Antarctic waters.

Then the staff measured his length, girth, and width of his flukes.

The potential for electoral flukes in November endangers the rule of law.

Cetacean flukes are horizontal and move up and down, because cetacean spines bend the same way as in other mammals.

Digenea main These are often called flukes, as most have flat rhomboid shapes like that of a flounder (Old English flóc).

In contrast to the elaborate stowage procedures for earlier anchors, stockless anchors are simply hauled up until they rest with the shank inside the hawsepipes, and the flukes against the hull (or inside a recess in the hull).

Iron was afterwards introduced for the construction of anchors, and an improvement was made by forming them with teeth, or "flukes", to fasten themselves into the bottom.

It uses a stock at the crown to which two large flat triangular flukes are attached.

Marine mammals have developed a number of features for efficient locomotion such as torpedo shaped bodies to reduce drag; modified limbs for propulsion and steering ; tail flukes and dorsal fins for propulsion and balance.

Most species have a dorsal fin to prevent themselves from turning upside-down in the water. citation citation The flukes of sirenians are raised up and down in long strokes to move the animal forward, and can be twisted to turn.