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How to use odd in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Odd means differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected. Example: “She slept in, which was very odd.”

Examples of odd by meaning

adjectiveDiffering from what is usual, ordinary or expected.

  • She slept in, which was very odd.
  • Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhaps oddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid enthusiasm for the game.1987 June 14, Karen Stabiner, “Putting her Heart through the Hoop”, in The New York Times, retrieved 29 Jul 2010
  • Did Mary (I thought it was odd that they always called her Mary even though her name was Mary Anne, and odder that Mom refused to correct them) have time for some questions?2012, Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club, Knopf Doubleday, →ISBN

adjectiveWithout a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.

  • Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.
  • My cat Fluffy has odd eyes: one blue and one brown.

adjectiveLeft over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.

  • I'm the odd one out.

adjectiveLeft over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.

  • "Here, I have some odd change that should make things easier." As Tish turned and reached for the cigarettes, Eric took some loose coins from his pocket and placed the change from the twenty into his other pocket.2009, Sam O'Connor, Tales of Old Las Vegas: Inside are a Few Stories Set in the 60's, where There was More to the Action Than the Games...
  • Third was my college loan of five thousand dollars and some odd change.2010, Chris Thomas, The Rockefeller Fraud, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 24

adjectiveScattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.

  • I don't speak Latin well, so in hearing a dissertation in Latin, I would only be able to make out the odd word of it.
  • but for the odd exception
  • There are odd bits of green here and there in patches, but no continuous stretches.1998, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley, Five Plays, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 148

adjectiveNot regular or planned.

  • He's only worked odd jobs.

adjectiveUsed or employed for odd jobs.

  • There is also the “orra man who, like the odd horse, is kept busy on odd jobs.1912, John Burleigh, Ednam and Its Indwellers

adjectiveNumerically indivisible by two.

  • The product of two odd numbers is also odd.
  • In their original article, Messrs Christie and Schultz found that in 70 of the 100 most heavily traded stocks, Nasdaq dealers avoided quoting prices in odd eighths of a dollar.1998 January 15, “Collusion in the Stockmarket”, in The Economist

More sentences with odd

  • The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian.From the entry Acadian
  • My car used to make an odd ping, but after the last oil change it went away.From the entry ping
  • The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers.From the entry complement
  • One only term is odd in ( 12; 3; 4 ).From the entry term
  • The odd and curious is born good and pure. The society corrupts.From the entry odd and curious
  • It's odd there were no twos in the winning lottery numbers.From the entry twos
  • Empty jam jars are handy for keeping odd bits and pieces in.From the entry jam jar
  • It might look odd to you, but that's how they do it where I come from.From the entry where I come from
  • I find it odd that you would say that.From the entry it
  • Her arm was bent back at an odd angle.From the entry back
  • Driving downtown is restricted to bikes with odd and even license plate numbers alternately by day of the month.From the entry alternately
  • Her arm was bent backward at an odd angle.From the entry backward
  • For the odd and curious of us, to fly like a bird is a not an easy thing.From the entry odd and curious
  • Everard liked to shop at the stores specializing in odd lots down by the docks, as he was a cheapskate.From the entry odd lot
  • It is odd he gets so many cavities since he brushes his teeth religiously, every night, rain or shine.From the entry religiously
  • Carrot Top is a well-known prop comic; he often comes on stage with a huge box of odd objects.From the entry prop comic
  • I get the odd day off here and there.From the entry here and there
  • I like doing odd jobs around the house.From the entry odd job
  • A Butterworth filter with an odd number of elements is symmetric while one with an even number of elements is antimetric.From the entry antimetric
  • The comedian was well known for working blue, so she seemed like an odd choice for the boy's eighth birthday party.From the entry work blue
  • It seems odd that the union left the tuition assistance program on the table when they negotiated this latest contract.From the entry leave on the table
  • It is important to remember, too, that she is generous with his time. Sometimes, too, she does ask for the odd favor.From the entry too
  • Eventually, all prime numbers are odd.From the entry eventually
  • I think the lady down the road is a few sandwiches short of a picnic—you often hear strange bangings at odd hours in the morning.From the entry few sandwiches short of a picnic
  • Through every point of a nonorientable surface there passes a Möbius-like nonorientable strip (with an odd number of half-twists) which is part of that surface.From the entry nonorientable

Meaning of odd

  1. adjective Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
  2. adjective Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
  3. adjective Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.

Full definition of odd

Questions about odd in a sentence

How do you use odd in a sentence?
Odd is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “She slept in, which was very odd.”
What is a short sentence with odd?
“He's only worked odd jobs.”
What does odd mean?
Odd means differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: odd (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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