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    Use "eccentric" in a sentence

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    eccentric


    1. From what Emma has told me over the years, the vicar is something of an eccentric … well, free thinker is probably more accurate


    2. His mother was always an eccentric, from then until now


    3. Between the two of them, everything is worn with an eccentric disregard for the conventions of the day


    4. Mother is a natural aristocrat – slightly eccentric and fears no-one


    5. ” Aaron answered without apology for the eccentric preoccupation


    6. He was always interesting and she actually wound up becoming friends with the ancient eccentric even though he claimed to be older than any religion she knew of


    7. It seemed to sum up the eccentric


    8. I still think Mother just wanted to be eccentric


    9. The man was about what he and others could expect from Morthal, that quietly eccentric town in the marshes


    10. He knew he had spent the vastly greater portion of the previous evening drinking with the eccentric man, as well as imbibing before and after they simultaneously gulped down full tankards

    11. Monty was an erudite eccentric, self educated man who appreciated intellectual stimulation in conjunction with the act of physical and emotional debasement of his submissives


    12. There were auxiliary neural enhancements available, favoured by the wealthy and eccentric


    13. Provided ample opportunities to self-destruct, that child soon acquires disagreeable habits that, reinforced by common attitudes, establishes the rocky foundations of a society populated by lingering, single-minded adolescents who, guided by their own (―exceptional‖) rules of conduct, acquire self-centered and perhaps anti-social points of view devolving into a collection of interchangeable parts reflecting the questionable character of that society‘s lowest forms that must negatively impact its social, cultural and political institutions including schools, churches, political organizations, judicial system, the news media, corporations, all! A free and open society should never impose arbitrary limits or draw uncertain conclusions as to how an individual should (otherwise) think or act however eccentric or unconventional such attitudes may appear; although that society, by example, should seek to broaden exemplary manners and customs essential to the maintenance of proper form if that society hopes to function effectively


    14. Police say the professor may have gone on a walkabout, for which the popular, yet eccentric teacher of journalism at Lennox College of Applied Arts and Technology was noted


    15. I honestly felt we were going to some sort of Halloween party, or maybe one of those extravagant dinner parties held by eccentric rich folks where nothing was ever considered over the top


    16. Whoever built this thing would be indeed quite an eccentric if any door would be cryptically lying in an obscure, random position


    17. He still found it difficult to understand how eccentric a machine of such awesome power could be, resolving to ignore most of what it said from then onwards


    18. The only thing keeping it together seemed to be this eccentric, half-crazed machine


    19. He was very eccentric but, by jove, his food was jolly good


    20. Actually, his behavior in jail was somewhat eccentric, or bizarre might be a better description, let alone the story about the gun

    21. Unappreciated at the time, and costing as little as the cheapest mass-produced furniture, my purchase of these apparently odd items had marked me out as eccentric After the restoration process that came with these purchases, they were appreciated by everyone else and approached the category of antiques


    22. “Patient is eccentric …” – a euphemism they used for unstable or hypochondriac


    23. The villagers considered him eccentric; his singing in the fields proved that he was crazy


    24. A certain Doctor William Price from England was the first person to perform a “legal” cremation according to his eccentric religious beliefs


    25. sheer wonder at the fact that this eccentric man had simply


    26. Last days? Was that what her grandmother said, last days? Over the years, Jesse had occasionally heard the words, end times, apocalypse, last days, but she had brushed them aside as some eccentric fringe thinking without ever considering the implication


    27. That was the kind of eccentric talk Harry knew and had grown up with—the paranoid scientist


    28. Room 366 one time substituted as a studio lounge after an eccentric man vouched for its authenticity by rarely leaving and tipping his hat forward


    29. To indulge his eccentric urge they would brave the icy blasts of night


    30. Many of the Nazarite brotherhood became believers in Jesus, but the majority of these ascetic and eccentric men refused to accept him as a teacher sent from heaven because he did not teach fasting and other forms of self-denial

    31. There can be sudden changes of social plans, sudden romantic opportunities, and eccentric behaviour on the part of the beloved


    32. An eccentric looking guy — obviously American judging by his accent — towered over me


    33. She said after she caught her breath, “Coming from you, Joey that sounds pretty eccentric


    34. Much puzzled by my eccentric behaviour, she left and I realised that I was now back to where I had started- desperately in need of help and unable to leave my patient for long enough to find it!


    35. At first she had thought him highly eccentric, but now knew better


    36. That kept him amused enough and he felt that he had enough social contact with his patients to prevent him from becoming too eccentric


    37. we’re wrong about all of this? Suppose the mother is just eccentric


    38. Of course, oftentimes one man’s misfortune is another man’s success as was the case here for several years ago he had inherited the extensive fortune of his eccentric aunt who had been in the upper class of the city


    39. Who knows? I’ll pawn him off as an eccentric hipster type


    40. have very eccentric orbits indeed, approaching very close to the Sun and out

    41. However eccentric he might be, I’m very grateful he’s caring for me now


    42. and unassigned symbolic tenacity with eccentric criticism


    43. She had googled the castle after Stefan selected this spot for their meeting and learned it had once been the home of an eccentric stage actor who gained fame playing Sherlock Holmes in the early 1900s


    44. The ‘cottage’ was actually a large Victorian house in an eccentric Tudor style: white


    45. But when voters pulled him out of the kursi for his eccentric governance, he made prohibition his political plank to regain power; that’s about the immorality of our politicians as the public memory being short; that’s how A


    46. The rack 12 is engaged with the gear 13 at the axle of which an eccentric 14 is installed and connected to the arm of a ratchet clutch 11 which in turn is engaged with the ratchet gear 10 of the spring drum 9 having a friction spiral spring 8 of an ordinary clock mechanism in it


    47. It moves the rack 12 and via 3 – the gear 13 and the eccentric 14 – the ratchet 11, which winds by means of the ratchet gear 10 the clock spring 8


    48. The bottom end of the rod 16 is hinged to bar(s) 2 via which it is connected to the drum of the spring of the clock 1 using the connection shown on Figure 4 (by means of a gear rack, eccentric and ratchet clutch)


    49. He had never given much thought to the fact that the company did have an owner, especially one as eccentric as this


    50. "Oh no, no," she protested, smiling as though she were humouring a spoilt and eccentric child, "such a thing could never be permitted










































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    Synonyms for "eccentric"

    case character eccentric type eccentric person flake geek oddball nonconcentric bizarre flakey flaky freakish freaky gonzo off-the-wall outlandish outre duck oddity quiz spook queer odd strange droll erratic

    "eccentric" definitions

    a person with an unusual or odd personality


    a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)


    conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual


    not having a common center; not concentric