How to Use oddity in a Sentence

oddity

noun

• Her shyness makes her a bit of an oddity in the business world.
• The zoo has such oddities as anteaters and platypuses.
• The other Razr oddity that has been axed is the top notch.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2022
• This oddity has not been missed in the French reception to the film.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
• And, and so the timing of this announcement was, was kind of the big oddity here.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
• Yet some oddities meant that an ocean couldn't be ruled out.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2024
• The oddity of Cyrus's fashion is par for the course at Paris Fashion Week, which took place last week.
  — Amanda Curran, Glamour, 3 Feb. 2023
• With the body of an adult and the brain of an infant, Bella is an intriguing oddity.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• Saint-Saëns’ use of the organ is an oddity, but so is the piano, with two pianists who sit next to the organ.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• Crew’s life was steeped in oddity from the very beginning.
  — Alex Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
• The oddity must also be used as part of a larger vision.
  — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 19 Jan. 2024
• Sometimes the oddity on a menu might be the chef’s passion project, which is reason enough to order it.
  — Eric Kim, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• That makes the oddity of each image even more pronounced.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
• For good measure, Ericsson took flight briefly in that win on the streets of Nashville to add to the oddity.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
• This year's asterisk in lieu of a winner isn't the only oddity for the glass in recent years.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 22 Feb. 2022
• The human foot is, frankly, kind of an oddity in the animal kingdom.
  — Katrina Miller, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2023
• In the same vein, your characters seem to have a rhythm or heartbeat riddled with oddities and quirks.
  — Iman Milner, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2023
• The University of Utah is in the middle of a bit of a scheduling oddity.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
• The Center of the Universe in Tulsa is an audio oddity.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2023
• But the PCjr was an oddity right out of the gate, with a weird-yet-wireless chiclet keyboard and a cartridge port used to load Lotus 1-2-3.
  — PCMAG, 20 Sep. 2022
• And the latest report contains a few oddities, as well.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• But at the same time, because she was seen as a little bit more of an oddity, people were a little bit less in her face.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
• Hong’s sly, slippery oddity suggests there are worse ways to live.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• For some, simply having a women’s track and field team seemed like an oddity.
  — oregonlive, 18 July 2022
• To make the occurrence even more of an oddity, Garcia and Maton did it against the exact same group of hitters.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 15 June 2022
• But perhaps the biggest oddity is that the member of the opening day roster with the most games played for the Rangers was playing in a season opener for the first time.
  — Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2022
• This top achievement contrasts with and crowns an album full of pop oddities.
  — Jonathan Cohen, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
• Damian was nice-looking—with wiry dark hair and wide-apart brown eyes flecked with gold—but characterless to the point of oddity.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• Brown isn't the only positional oddity who might be on the Sixers' free-agent radar this year.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 25 June 2022
• For years, the third section was more of a historical oddity.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024