How to Use eccentricity in a Sentence

eccentricity

noun

• Talking to her plants is one of her many eccentricities.
• Some people weren't very tolerant of his eccentricity.
• And a large part of that is a desire to avoid spoiling the game's eccentricities.
  — Julie Muncy, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2018
• The big thing for us was capturing the essence and eccentricities of the ‘70s punk scene in London.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 June 2023
• Wear a few gold necklaces and chunky hoop earrings for the look too, this will add a hint of eccentricity.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 19 Sep. 2024
• Though beyond the champagne and eccentricities, the event served as a platform for stars to speak out.
  — Fatema Etemadi, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
• The album is some of the best, most lively garage-blues crunch he’s given us in many many moons, with just the right amount of eccentricity thrown in.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2024
• In some hands, the life of Richard Davis would be an exercise in eccentricity.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2022
• Like many others who have played the game, the eccentricity keeps him coming back.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 28 June 2022
• In darts, the results may depend on the paths of a few individuals and the eccentricities of the game.
  — Ben Blatt Courtney Cox, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• At the same time, Nusca sees Musk's eccentricity as a strength.
  — Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2020
• The shape of the portrait — the distance of the various wings from the main body, and the eccentricities of their orbits — would vary depending on when it was drawn.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 4 June 2019
• Travel fosters eccentricity, in the truest sense of the word.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 19 July 2016
• The more elongated and narrow the orbit, the closer the eccentricity gets to one.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2019
• The South — its look, its laziness, its lush eccentricity — deeply informs the work.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• For many readers, there will inevitably be a sense of the eccentricity of such worship.
  — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Frank and Jackie took on all the chemistry and eccentricity of my own parents.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• The eccentricities of his adult life were a far cry from the normalcy of his childhood, which by all accounts was a happy one.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
• The magic, the beauty, the eccentricity that does not belong to earthly life.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• To ridicule her clothes for their eccentricity is akin to making fun of Pee-wee Herman for his nerdiness.
  — Francesca Granata, The Atlantic, 7 May 2017
• One of the other delightful eccentricities of the work is that Ives uses a flute only in the final few pages.
  — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• The trick was to make the eccentricity believable and yet funny.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2021
• The mild climate and the inhabitants’ sense of humor has allowed this eccentricity to spread to the streets.
  — Giulia Barcaro, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
• There is its eccentricity: The lefty closer who spins sliders from above his cap.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• But then, Chuck’s love story with his wife, Linda, and his eccentricity – that ‘Rocky’ hook is just a wonderful side dish to the main course.
  — Long Beach Press Telegram, Orange County Register, 5 May 2017
• But over time, repeated kicks from its pair of host stars could have pumped up its eccentricity.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2019
• Even by the standards of brash start-up founders, Mr. Neumann’s eccentricities became the stuff of legend.
  — Amy Chozick, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2019
• After a while, even a voter willing to put up with eccentricity can get worn out.
  — Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
• Desserts are splendid, modern with need for the eccentricity of exotic herbs.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• An object with an eccentricity greater than 0 but less than 1 has an elliptical orbit.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024