How to Use oddly in a Sentence

oddly

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• Their lives had been oddly similar.
• Yet the news, the coach said, oddly seemed to rally the team.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• That may be, oddly, a sign of the sport’s health—at home and abroad.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• For the consumer of thrills, this turns out to be oddly thrilling!
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• An oddly off-kilter voice, the voice of the book, arises.
  — Cara Blue Adams, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
• The carpet is oddly patterned, and dirty, with lots of pet hair on it.
  — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The rice itself looked tasty enough—fluffy, well formed—but its oddly fleshy hue gave me the creeps.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2024
• But oddly, the safest course of action is to get inside one.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• Takes place in the mind of a young boy in just one day in school, oddly enough, bird lovers might enjoy it.
  — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023
• Nobody talked how Tyler Herro was oddly content to work the fringes of the game.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2023
• This oddly adorable dumpling light is perfect for kids and quirky adults alike.
  — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
• Fresh Eggs Yes, even fresh eggs are okay in both carry-on and checked bags, oddly enough.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2023
• The problem with these crucial episodes, oddly enough, is that The Crown is going out of its way to be nice.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
• But oddly enough, the famed short seller Jim Chanos isn’t worried.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2023
• However, oddly, from here the name stuck and refused to leave.
  — Anhar Karim, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• The Yanks got the best of the Tigers last time; the Tigers won the series finale, 4-3, to avoid a sweep but oddly enough, both teams seem to have found something during the four games.
  — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2023
• There really doesn’t seem to be much of anybody up there, oddly enough.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
• The Hen House was oddly quiet as everyone stamped their sheets.
  — Carolyn Van Houten, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• On Orleans, which -- oddly enough -- is the interior model of the show.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
• What is hard, oddly shaped, and brings you good fortune on Thanksgiving?
  — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 27 July 2023
• Sheepshead have teeth that look oddly similar to sheep’s teeth, hence their common name.
  — Outdoor Life, 20 Sep. 2023
• One of the others sharing that rank, oddly enough, was 2004′s Hurricane Charley.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 30 Nov. 2022
• The scene seems oddly unreal, like plastic flowers on a grave.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Now Betelgeuse has begun to behave oddly again, brightening by 50 per cent in the last month or so.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2023
• As with previous scenes, this interlude feels oddly quiet and intimate: the calm in the eye of a storm.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• Production design, oddly, is less central, and this is the first of the Flanagan shows not to be a tour de force in that department.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2023
• But oddly, one ingredient this recipe didn’t call for was eggs.
  — Susan Puckett, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
• Aside from the West, who has been experiencing a historic cold and snowy winter, much of the country has been oddly warm.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 6 Mar. 2023
• But the biggest change has come behind the bench, which, oddly enough, brings us to Jim Nill’s peculiar specialty.
  — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
• But Burden’s life and work had an oddly on-the-nose quality, which made him—along with Marina Abramović—the closest thing to a face the movement got.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024