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    Use "odd" in a sentence

    odd example sentences

    odd


    1. The day was fine and warm but I was wearing a wool hat to cover my scars – rather odd in the circumstances so I was


    2. He does a lot of odd jobs around the bar but he mostly just hangs around here to drink


    3. How very odd that it should matter …


    4. Odd, I can’t see him as a family man … but Stephen says he was desperate for children … so terribly sad about the baby … who could shoot a pregnant woman? The thought makes me shiver suddenly; there’s someone out there who took a gun, loaded it and shot Joanna Sadler in the back deliberately and then tried to make it look as though Liz Wynell had done it


    5. Despite this, I hear the odd word … which frustratingly tells me nothing!


    6. That’s odd, they don’t say why they are leaving … I’m sure they said they were intending to be in the area for at least five years when they took the place


    7. ‘That sounds very odd


    8. knocked a double garage door in the rear wall so we could bring the odd car under


    9. The funny thing was that when on the odd occasion I did sit and day-dream a


    10. of them Tom’s cast-offs, hung around in the background at the odd dance at the

    11. I dreamed the odd dream and filed the plans away, never thinking that there would be


    12. without the odd slanging match between me and him in the Legion, he and the boys


    13. dated, had the odd fumble, but a bit like Destiny, that Bond girl who reads the Tarot


    14. ‘That’s the odd thing about it – this Hansford guy isn’t black … but it transpires that his mother is


    15. Point three was most odd, so he ignored it


    16. How odd, he thought, it sounds as though I’m being locked in


    17. Despite the slightly odd circumstances of the evening and the fact that the


    18. started to pull it gently through her sleek, long, black hair, how odd that they still


    19. ‘Sometimes – pretty awful most of them, though you do get the odd one who has a bit of sense about her


    20. This too was odd

    21. creative types has taken the odd short cut or two


    22. ‘It was one of those odd coincidences


    23. So in total I had exactly €16500 Euro plus the €475 I held back yesterday and we made up the odd €25 with bits and pieces of change around the house


    24. By the time they have finished, I feel a little better, though my head still feels odd


    25. He refrained from kneeling on me again, contenting himself with screaming obscenities at me and giving me the odd slap around the head or knees


    26. ’ He said deliberately seriously understating the case, ‘In the summer, I tend to get my breakfast and bring it up to eat in bed, and, on the odd occasion when I’ve been ill, it has been a great comfort to be able to see that lot from the bed


    27. He had a long workbench along one wall and odd bits of wood stashed all over the place, under the bench, in racks on the ceiling


    28. I heard odd scufflings and the opening and closing of doors, assuming that it was my guards moving about my new and as yet undiscovered home


    29. Could my distorted mind be playing tricks on me? Was the ultimate nature of my lunacy to take shape in a world of imagined friends, of odd and sundry voices rattling off the walls of my empty head?


    30. Menachem remembered Ben from the odd ex-pat gathering

    31. It’s interesting stuff and we have the odd chat


    32. Her unintelligible words were still ringing in the ionized air, when I first noticed those pools of an odd, whitish liquid oozing all over the place


    33. The landscape was magical: A vast seaside of rosy sand stretched before me, an odd treasure of tiny pink diamonds turning white under the shallow sea waves in the distance


    34. ’ He’d also said how odd it had felt being so close to his home and yet so far away from it … Kara knew exactly what he meant now


    35. No family … an only child, her parents had died some years before … few friends of the social variety because over the past fifteen odd years what time she’d had to spare had been spent with Joris and other people had just stopped including her in


    36. something odd at the school gates


    37. Picking up the envelope, she quickly extracted the sheet inside and read it; it was dated twelve years previously … how odd


    38. It’s odd knowing that there are years of my life which I cannot recall


    39. ‘Whereabouts on the island is the touching place, Lintze?’ Berndt asked, producing a map of the island and laying it out on the table, pushing odd bits of tableware out of the way as he does so


    40. ‘How odd that you should have bumped into him

    41. An odd mixture of clown and killer … he killed two men yesterday with less compunction than I would swat a wasp


    42. His stories always made me feel odd and out of place but that day, after watching the surfers having so much fun, I gave in and agreed to let him give me my first lesson, as long as we stayed in the sheltered corner, away from the waves


    43. I look round the cabin and slowly accumulate a pile of odd bits and pieces, heaping them up on the bunk so that Berndt can pack them


    44. In the odd moments that you remember to question


    45. ‘On the coast some twenty odd miles south of Bristol


    46. I catch the odd word which seems to mean something but without any great understanding


    47. A few miles further on and we start seeing the odd farmhouse in the landscape


    48. There’s a group of pilgrims ahead of us –how I am going to find the Element? If there are loads of people around, it could be difficult … wouldn’t it? I mean, I can’t go delving … it would look odd


    49. Catching the odd bass is one thing, but I’ve never managed anything other than my own time, and besides, he’s hardly going to take me on in my current state of health, is he!”


    50. What’s that? A light at Jo’s front door? Gracious! Is that a man prancing down the path to the gate? It’s not Jo … yes, it’s definitely a man – Alastair? That’s odd, he usually leaves very quietly … whatever can have happened? Hmmm … what d’you reckon? Should you go and check Jo’s okay or not? Okay, admit your curiosity is going wild! Maybe telephone?














































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    Synonyms for "odd"

    odd uneven left left over leftover remaining unexpended curious funny peculiar queer rum rummy singular unmatched unmated unpaired different bizarre eccentric extraordinary fantastic quaint casual occasional individual single sole surplus remainder uncertain doubtful insecure obscure vague various fragmentary varied

    "odd" definitions

    not divisible by two


    not easily explained


    an indefinite quantity more than that specified


    beyond or deviating from the usual or expected


    of the remaining member of a pair


    not used up