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Example sentences for "oncommon"

Lexicographically close words:
once; onced; oncet; oncle; oncoming; oncques; onct; onda; onde; onder
  1. Sez I, 'You picked a oncommon handy time to tackle them curtains; they must be mighty good to cure the ear-itch'.

  2. Only the squalling of the pea-fowul what was oncommon oneasy, and the thunder that was ear-splitting.

  3. I allays like to carry a prayer-book weth me, 'tes oncommon lucky.

  4. Reckon the Sweet Williams 'ull be out in the garden now; they do smell oncommon sweet.

  5. One do feel oncommon small in them trenches at night.

  6. But it took a bit of time to get it well round, the change come so oncommon plump; didn't it?

  7. If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked.

  8. For he wuz very agreeable, as well as oncommon smart, which two qualities don't always go together, as has often been observed by others, and I have seen for myself.

  9. Barzeel wuz always most too enthusiastick to suit me, but I got the idee from what she said that she wuz a oncommon lovely child.

  10. Ay, I thocht I liked Mag oncommon till I saw Jeanie, an' I like her fine yet, but I prefer the other ane.

  11. I wouldna wonder but ye're richt, Leeby; for Chirsty would be in an oncommon fluster if she thocht the lad's mither was likely to hear 'at her best chair was torn.

  12. His honour oncommon solemn and my lord oncommon talkative--wouldn't nowise part wi' his boots, threatened to shoot the first man as dared touch same.

  13. The doctor is an oncommon strange man, and lives on an island down the bend.

  14. He's an oncommon fine fellow, and made your cake dough once before.

  15. But I know an oncommon sharp young fellow, Jemmy Kettel is his name.

  16. But I did hear they was oncommon greedy to cut up a poor brother of mine, as coom to trouble.

  17. Joe in surprise; "now that's oncommon cur'us.

  18. It wuz a oncommon good meal, and he felt quite softened down in his mean by the time he finished.

  19. We wuz told that there wuz to be oncommon exercises that day owin' to the visit of a great Evangelist from the West.

  20. That summer my pardner had a oncommon good streak of luck, he sold two colts and a yearlin' heifer for a price that fairly stunted us both, it wuz so big.

  21. Their best chance of getting the weather-gage of us is by surprise; but in a little barkie like this here we larns the knack of sleeping with one eye open, and they'll have to be oncommon 'cute that surprises us.

  22. Tween you and me, its a oncommon fair day, likely you wouldn't take no cold.

  23. Tween you and me, Fleet Foot is oncommon stiddy to-day.

  24. I hope this will be a warnin fur you to be oncommon keerful of that are tongue of yourn in futur.

  25. Their best chance of getting the weather-gauge of us is by surprise; but in a little barkie like this here we larns the knack of sleeping with one eye open, and they'll have to be oncommon 'cute that surprises us.

  26. I began to feel all over a cur'ous sort o' peculiar unaccountableness, which it ain't easy to explain, but is most oncommon disagreeable to feel.

  27. It's there ye must have larned to be so oncommon cliver.

  28. We may laugh at it as we please, my dear fellow, but there's no denying that we are in what the Yankees would call an `oncommon fix.

  29. Only one—a leetle gal, but an oncommon good un.

  30. But I has my raisons for axing, from things as Iʼve a ‘earʼd him say, and oncommon good raisons too.

  31. It's easy enough to find men who call themselves just, but it's wonderful oncommon to find them that are the very thing, in fact.

  32. The first inimy you have to be watchful of, as I've already told you, Judith, is oncommon good looks, and the next is an oncommon knowledge of the sarcumstance.

  33. After all, Deerslayer, I must allow, you're getting to have an oncommon good eye for the woods!

  34. Was the poor woman oncommon wicked, that her husband should take so much pains with her body?

  35. Sartainly something did move the water, oncommon like; must have been a fish.

  36. We must sartainly manage to get Hist off, and have 'em married as soon as we get back to the tribe, or this war will be of no more use to the chief, than a hunt a little oncommon extr'ornary.

  37. Hist would show oncommon likely, too, in such a gownd, Delaware!

  38. There's the blackguard Rivenoak, he that brought us off has an oncommon scalp, and I'd give as much for it myself as the Colony.

  39. Weel, Silva, to tell the truth I was oncommon favourably impreesed.

  40. He was oncommon troubled wi' the toothache till he found a cure.

  41. I noticed that night they was a' oncommon lot o' jiners, and I believe to this day 'at most of 'em jined jist to git up where the stove was.

  42. Ginneral McClellan didn' say a word, one way nor tother, but looked oncommon solemn, and axed the Kernel whether he didn't want to revew the troops.

  43. It was oncommon hot wether, an it pulled down purty hard on a constitushin which has had to go thru about eighty sich summers.

  44. The resin you ain't herd from me is jest this: I've been feelin oncommon gloomy and down-sperited all summer.

  45. Sumtimes you go slam rite in one bank an sumtimes in t'other, and then it ain't at all oncommon to get on a sand-bar, an lay there no one can tell how long.


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