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Example sentences for "odd"

Lexicographically close words:
oda; odal; odalisk; odalisque; odde; odder; oddes; oddest; oddities
  1. Marsh thought this a good idea, and owing to the odd situation which had developed, left his telephone number, suggesting that the agent let him know what he heard in the matter.

  2. Then he threw his two hundred and some odd pounds against the door itself.

  3. It looked odd to Morgan and he approached it.

  4. The woman's manner was so odd that Miss Broad wondered if she was a little touched in the head, or if she had been drinking.

  5. It's odd that they're so quiet, and suggests mischief.

  6. Curran gave some odd sketches of a Serjeant Kelly, at the Irish bar, whose whimsical peculiarity was an inveterate habit of drawing conclusions directly at variance with his premises.

  7. I will win ten thousand--you shall throw for the odd ninety.

  8. Long Sir Thomas distinguished himself in this odd manner.

  9. There were odd scenes and incidents occasionally at the club meetings.

  10. Con-signed in a safe quarter," replied George, wringing the heads off half a dozen shrimps, and swallowing them without any more ado.

  11. A thousand pounds is not much, Mr. Pickwick.

  12. He's been running odd jobs, and that, for the last two months.

  13. True," said Dodson, "I dare say you have been annoyed in the Fleet; there are some odd gentry there.

  14. Wardle, "I had a great idea of marrying her myself, one of these odd days.

  15. She answered me in an abstracted, odd way, and was unlike herself, as I have said.

  16. He always found some excuse for coming on his way down-town: and it was very odd that he should not want to explain his sudden going away last night.

  17. Here is an odd treasure," said one of the workmen, holding up a locket of dull gold.

  18. Very odd to American eyes are their dress and manners.

  19. It seems kinder odd to be fightin' longside of gray-backs.

  20. What odd turn of fortune's wheel was this?

  21. With odd sense of relief I hastily stripped off the gorgeous trappings, flung them in the ditch beside the road, and pressed on, feeling like a new man.

  22. I expect my nurse's aunt thought us an odd lot, us humans.

  23. She had an odd habit of using the plural when she wished to be discreet.

  24. She had an odd idea that he was amused at her.

  25. There was an odd half-query in her voice.

  26. He peered past her, interested in the odd pictures on the walls, and the glimpse of a table luxuriously set.

  27. The thin flame flickered between them, kindling odd lights in their eyes.

  28. Filled with misgiving, I was about to ask the landlord for an explanation of this odd demand, when it suddenly occurred to me that he wished to have it in writing, like any other master who was about to engage a servant.

  29. The parson was an odd match to his books.

  30. I dare say it is that I am always keenly alive to these odd passages in life, and that I am more prone to seize the whimsicality of a matter than is a person of a better gravity.

  31. But hearing the lusty demanding voices of the persons who even at that moment were at the threshold of the inn, the whole meaning of this odd matter suddenly flashed into my mind.

  32. Cynthia, with a very odd mingling of sorrow and mirth in her face.

  33. Besides, he was a very small and insignificant rat of a fellow, and had a strange odd way of peering through his horn spectacles.

  34. Indeed, to come down to the details of this odd matter, I believe at the period of which I speak they may have had my name appended to them.

  35. I was then much surprised and interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and the other a plain one.

  36. The odd stitch netted plain, only occurs at the commencement of each alternate row of netting done with No.

  37. NOTE, in casting on a stocking, there must always be an odd stitch cast on for the seam.

  38. Be careful to avoid taking odd threads, if you work the pattern in cross stitch.

  39. Any odd number of stitches may be cast on.

  40. This is to be done in two colors, and cast on any odd number of stitches.

  41. An odd number of stitches are required, and No.

  42. He somewhat marred the beauty of the spot by an importation of certain odd things which he professed to consider indispensable.

  43. How odd I should not have met her before!

  44. In some respects, however, he lived exactly the same odd and unpopular life.

  45. This conjecture was but founded on the odd cry he had heard.

  46. This was Philip Feltram; and an odd quarrel it was.

  47. Well, tell me what's wrong, child, and it's odd but I have a recipe on the shelf there that will do you good.

  48. Come and talk this odd business over a little; you must have mistaken what I meant; I should like to hear all about it.

  49. As the caterpillar sickens and changes its hue when it is about to undergo its transformation, so an odd change took place in Feltram.

  50. In this odd way, slowly, faintly, with many a sigh and scarcely audible groan, he gradually delivered his message and was silent.

  51. We may note here that there are many odd beliefs connected with the myrtle.

  52. But she would certainly think it very odd of me not to call on friends of hers, and be polite to them.

  53. Georgie, for his part, would have liked rather more light, but after all Debussy wrote such very odd chords and sequences that it was not necessary to wear his spectacles.

  54. In addition there were other topics of extraordinary interest, for really there had been very odd experiences at Mrs Quantock's last night, when the Italian debacle was going on, a little way up the road.

  55. I dropped in just now, and really I found her very odd and strange.

  56. That would be a very odd thing," she said.

  57. That was very odd conduct in a lately-married bridegroom, and it was hoped that there had been no quarrel.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "odd" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.