How to Use the odd man/one out in a Sentence

the odd man/one out

noun

• Greyson has spent a lot of time feeling ashamed and like the odd man out.
  — oregonlive, 8 Jan. 2023
• This meant that Highsmith was the odd man out against the Magic.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2024
• The team’s depth made the 29-year-old blueliner the odd man out last season.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2023
• But Mitchell could be the odd man out after the Jets selected Fashanu.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 10 May 2024
• The promising 20-year-old has been the odd man out in the Pacers' recent lineup shift.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2023
• Grzelcyk scratched Matt Grzelcyk was again the odd man out on defense.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
• At a meeting of the world’s largest weapons sales lobby – which is what NATO is – a man of peace is clearly the odd one out.
  — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2024
• Spot the odd one out among the fitness protocols compiled on these pages.
  — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2023
• So Gallimore might be the odd man out along the defensive front, which could lead to a possible trade.
  — Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
• His story of being the odd man out of the gold-medal hunt was well-known, and the snapping of that streak was well-celebrated among his peers.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
• Even Hungary, despite its recent vaunted turn to Russia, chose not to be the odd man out.
  — Elizabeth Pond, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2015
• Drew McIntyre feels like the odd man out this WrestleMania season.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Two seasons ago – and now quite famously – Bobby Portis was the odd man out.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
• Boston needed to clear a roster spot for a trade acquisition, and Kotsay was the odd man out.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Apr. 2023
• In a family whose world is laced with magic, one member stands out for her lack of abilities: Mirabel, who struggles with being the odd one out.
  — Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2022
• That’s left the tax bill as the odd man out, as Wyden searches for another piece of legislation on which the tax provisions could hitch a ride before mid-April.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• Another new additional to the panel, Chance the Rapper, turned, leaving Blake Shelton the odd one out.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2023
• So, with Stevens currently manning that spot and entering the rotation after nearly a month of DNPs, someone must be the odd man out.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2022
• But in the opera this figure feels like the odd one out, rather than the singular nihilistic force opposing everyone else onstage.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• There’s also the possibility that Trammell, last season’s minutes leader, is perfectly healthy for the rest of the season, Byrd stops coughing it up and Davis is the odd man out.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2023
• As always, the odd man out is Germany, the richest and most populous European power that will not shed its civil religion of pacifism.
  — Josef Joffe, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2016
• Instead, the 49ers, in a nod to Washington’s run-heavy, smashmouth offense, decided to use an extra interior lineman and Jackson was the odd man out.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2023
• Sheppard was unsurprisingly the odd man out, and he's appeared in just 22 of the Pacers' 44 games this season with most of his appearances coming when the game was already decided one way or the other.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• While not every one of those outings has been terrible, Stroman is currently positioned as the odd man out of the Yankees’ rotation with Clarke Schmidt possibly returning before the end of the month.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 8 Aug. 2024
• Teller, likewise, is often the odd man out — his Hungarian accent sets him apart in the paranoid environs of this American military project.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 July 2023
• In those rare cases, the odd one out had likely ingested another planet – or at least planetary material.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
• His character Sam is the odd one out of a heteronormative, ostensibly well-meaning family — a trans man who moved to Toronto four years ago and is now reluctantly returning for his father’s birthday.
  — Amos Mac, Them, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024