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Example sentences for "oddly enough"

  • It had, oddly enough, never occurred to her before.

  • Oddly enough, it was Harvey's sister Belle who made the only protest against the recall.

  • Sara Lee had suddenly a strange feeling that he was watching the couple who talked over their coffee, and that, oddly enough, the couple were watching him.

  • Oddly enough it was but a short time after seeing the old man at his gate that I had my first sight of an inmate of Dovecot House.

  • Oddly enough, the other old woman had also been travelling all day, but from an opposite direction, over Somerset way, just to visit Chitterne.

  • There was, oddly enough, no acceptance of this offer by Mr. Ferguson.

  • II Oddly enough, the first thing he noticed in the confusion that reigned was the absence of the piano.

  • Oddly enough, he never heard her make even the slightest reference to her profession without experiencing a sharp twinge of annoyance.

  • Oddly enough, the major did not eagerly accept this munificent offer.

  • But, oddly enough, Miss Carry refrained from denunciations or any other stormy expression of her anger and scorn.

  • The natives told me that you were trekking to those parts; and if you, sir, are one of Lord Mountford's sons, oddly enough I think I must have known your father in my youth.

  • Also, oddly enough, of Anscombe's presentiment which he had fulfilled by killing a Basuto.

  • Although I heard it, oddly enough, I paid no attention to it at the time, being utterly intent upon the business in hand.

  • I could not even make out his features, although, oddly enough, I could see the trout very distinctly.

  • From death my mind leaped, oddly enough, to drownings.

  • The worst of the class, oddly enough, are those found in front of watchmakers' and opticians' shops.

  • Oddly enough, the American people freely criticise their newspapers.

  • His first distinct sensation was a vague wonder what Barbara might be intending to give him for dinner, for, oddly enough, he felt far from hungry, and was conscious that his palate would require the adroitest witching.

  • Oddly enough, it had scarcely occurred to him before to speculate on what he might be doing in his absence; he had thought chiefly about himself.

  • It was quite different from the nervousness she had just been experiencing, and, oddly enough, it gave her a kind of desperate courage.

  • Oddly enough, you came into my mind at the moment.

  • Oddly enough he did not feel himself the least an intruder.

  • It was all amazingly like a frosted Christmas card, thought Trix, those Christmas cards her soul had adored in her childish days, and yet which, oddly enough, always brought with them a sentimental touch of sadness.

  • Throughout these moments of the conversation she, whoever she was, had been at his knee all along even though, oddly enough, her presence had registered in his brain with the vaguest of awareness.

  • Oddly enough, there it was, even in such a man so unfettered by moral restraints as he was.

  • For, oddly enough, he, as rich as he was, had come to this place of all places like an impecunious, malnourished refugee seeking any parlous state that might save him from starvation.

  • The only burning thing he felt about his position was anger--an anger against his father in the first place and against Archelaus, oddly enough, in the second.

  • Oddly enough--or oddly as if seemed to Ishmael, who was wont to be in the background when out with Killigrew--it was to him that she chiefly addressed herself.

  • She was, though, oddly enough, men either hated her or were deeply in love with her, and as time went on the sort that were in love with her grew more and more fearful.

  • The Parson sank more and more into the background, but there came over the rim of his world a new figure that, oddly enough, filled much the same place.

  • Oddly enough, however, while on another case, I saw him again in the prisoner's dock and at once went over and spoke to him.

  • Oddly enough, when after much struggling we had mounted the hill, we heard voices, and suddenly met two men, who had also been astray all day, but now knew the way home.

  • In retrospect it is easy to see that all things work together for good, but at the time, oddly enough, even if such reports are absolutely false, they hurt more than the point of a good steel knife.

  • Oddly enough, beer in large blue china jugs was freely served at every dinner.

  • Yet, oddly enough, I was not jealous in the ordinary way.

  • Oddly enough, he felt much better when they were actually on the river.

  • But, oddly enough, as he walked back to the hotel it was just Betty Lardner who made him think again of the legend.

  • Then he fell back upon his books again, and, oddly enough, upon another volume of voyages, and so chanced upon the account of Sir Francis Drake's occupation of the bay before him.

  • But it was getting late, and he was still far from the Hall, which, oddly enough, seemed to be no longer visible from the road.

  • Yet this he found, oddly enough, the least palatable to his fancy.

  • Oddly enough, Milton uses words beginning with sh seven hundred and fifty four times in his poetry, not to speak of others in which the sound occurs, as, for instance, those ending in tion.

  • And, oddly enough in spite of all the controversies going on about Christianity, I have always really worshipped Christ in my heart of hearts, .

  • And, oddly enough, these lists scarcely ever include the name of a poet,--which is the absurdest mistake ever made.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also present; annual rings; apple tree; clear that; crossed himself; dear grandfather; engraved portrait; evening reception; ever thought; feet dark; firmly fixed; get into; industrial pollution; little bit; oddly enough; putting himself; shall destroy; shall grow; slavery friends; sterilized milk; this fellow; will offer