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
• This is the news that, oddly, no one seems to be talking about.
  — Ian Morris, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2022
• This is one of the few cases where, oddly, joy might be part of the problem.
  — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022
• 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
• The state’s highest court is called, oddly enough, the New York Court of Appeals.
  — Barbara McQuade, TIME, 4 June 2024
• 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
• Public records and databases were oddly silent about Aldrich for the first two decades of his life.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2022
• In the novel, the guitar makes two cameos, one of them oddly moving.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2024
• For one, it’s cut to cover the ears—a feature that’s oddly hard to find in a running beanie.
  — Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The effect is a film that’s oddly funny, right down to a mid-credits scene played for laughs.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2024
• But in 1932, Old St. Nick oddly kicked off the parade instead.
  — Janaya Wecker, Good Housekeeping, 14 Nov. 2022
• The steering is quick and responsive and a bit heavy but, oddly, lacking in feel at the same time.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
• And then really oddly, Alex walked around the bar and sat across the bar over there (on the opposite side).
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2024
• However, oddly, from here the name stuck and refused to leave.
  — Anhar Karim, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• But for many of the rest of us, hearing our middle name can seem oddly formal.
  — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
• The scandal was kindled, oddly enough, by the genre question.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2022
• 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
• But oddly enough, his case has been delayed, over and over again, once before the 2024 Democratic primary and again before the November election.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2025
• Gabriel looked at the man sitting opposite him, who presented as a boarding-school boy, oddly aged, but was actually working class.
  — Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025