How to Use peculiar to in a Sentence

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• The scene in and around Arizona Stadium was peculiar to say the least.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2020
• Knowing what Jujubee has done in lip-syncs in the past, did that lip-sync seem peculiar to you?
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 22 June 2020
• The film also has the eerie present-tense quality peculiar to high-frame-rate shooting.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
• Leaks have been discovered in some theaters; issues peculiar to putting on a show have cropped up in others.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• But there was another distinction, peculiar to the times, yes, but also positive in terms of access.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2021
• The things that are scary or chasing the different characters are oftentimes things that are internal and peculiar to that person.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• In earlier eras, it was more seen as peculiar to a particular movement.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2020
• Most of her interactions are clouded by incomprehension at why things that are so clear to her should seem so peculiar to everyone else.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
• Which, as this series—written and created by Francesca Brill and Luke Watson —regularly suggests, tends to be a condition peculiar to women.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
• Judge Presnell’s injunction rested on a doctrine peculiar to First Amendment cases, one that allows judges to strike down overbroad laws because of their chilling effect on others’ speech.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The technology has been especially effective against Covid-19 for reasons peculiar to the virus.
  — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• Each of the book’s dozens of characters is delineated as a simple, distinct caricature, and Beaton loves the disputes and idioms peculiar to the many kinds of people drawn to the ready money in Alberta from all corners of the English-speaking world.
  — Sam Thielman, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2022
• Specifically, the traits and tendencies peculiar to our species, the genes which may underpin those traits and tendencies, and how that may relate to broader public health considerations.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011
• But however the traumatic event is visited on the individual, the question remains: Are the symptoms that have come to be identified as evidence of trauma peculiar to the modern era?
  — Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Pence’s plight illustrates a paradox peculiar to the Trump administration.
  — Elaina Plott, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• After Sandy Hook, too many explanations described these horrible events as peculiar to a deranged individual or due to the sole factor of mental illness.
  — Darcie Vandegrift, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2021
• Mina had to manage the public entertainments peculiar to technological royalty, including putting up with Henry Ford and panicking when the king of Siam asked for iced tea.
  — Katherine Hobbs, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
• In reality, the team-building process may bring you a lot of pain—there are some common omissions, like inefficient recruitment, that are peculiar to managers who lack necessary experience.
  — Roman Kumar Vyas, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• Machiavelli, writing four centuries earlier, had made a similar point about the gulf, so puzzling and peculiar to politics, between intention and result.
  — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2020
• My father's fascination with aromas is far from peculiar to Middle Easterners.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 7 Oct. 2022
• Hence some biologists object that human female menopause is merely part of a widespread phenomenon of animal menopause, not something peculiar to humans.
  — Jared Diamond, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Unique circumstances such as the acute semiconductor shortage, which limited supply of internal combustion engine cars (ICEs), are partly behind the high-water mark, as are logistical decisions peculiar to industry leader Tesla.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024