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How to use oddity in a sentence

25 example sentences · noun

Oddity means an odd or strange thing or opinion. Example: “The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.”

Examples of oddity by meaning

nounAn odd or strange thing or opinion.

  • An Avonside 0-4-4T with outside cylinders, bought by the S.M.A. in 1882 and scrapped in 1892 as a dismal failure, was one of the motive power oddities (some of them mortgaged).1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586

More sentences with oddity

  • The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.From the entry collection
  • The oddities of quantum mechanics can boggle the minds of students and experienced physicists alike.From the entry boggle
  • The oddity of the situation was so flabbergasting I couldn’t react in time for anyone to see it.From the entry flabbergast
  • You might see the oddity of a “witch window” sideways by the peak of the pointy roof.2021 June 13, Jenay Zapparelli, The Book of Beautiful Feelings: Thee Quintessential Guide to Deliberate Creation, BookonFire Press, →ISBN…. From the entry witch window
  • When it comes to hyper-local oddities, your search-fu has got to be powerful.2017 June 1, Andrew Kenney, “Why there’s a Frederic Remington bronze sculpture in a Denver parking lot: A guide to pointless…. From the entry search-fu
  • All they’ve really achieved is keeping addiction an oddity, a sideshow.2013 July 19, Kristen Johnston, “Turning Addiction Into a Sideshow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2019. From the entry sideshow
  • Just believe this: Oddity after oddity in "Next" checks out, and many are replays of real events.2006 November 28, Janet Maslin, “Geneticists gone wild. What’s the world to do?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry unputdownable
  • In contrast, the drosophilas of Hawaii owe their oddity entirely to the whims of natural selection.2006, Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, page 127. From the entry drosophila
  • I have always samefooded, but until my diagnosis with autism, it was an oddity I was often mocked for.2023 March 15, Jessica L Penot, “The New Language of Autism”, in Psychology Today, retrieved 23 Apr 2026. From the entry samefood
  • Paths scratched in the mosses on tree trunks mark the presence of drepanosaurs, another of Madygen's evolutionary oddities.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 161. From the entry drepanosaur
  • A shop that wasn't here before, an old Chinaman in a shop of oriental oddities—this is too televisionish to be true!2009, Jerome Baker, “The Thin Man's Disappearing Act”, The Collected Short Stories of Jerome Baker, Xlibris (hardcover) (softcover), 149. From the entry televisionish
  • Eire - now an oddity rarely used, an out-of-date reference.1996, John Wilson, Understanding Journalism; A Guide To Issues, Routledge., →ISBN, page 269. From the entry Eire
  • We read deasil, and Macaulay's widdershins writing ‘traced from the right on pages white’ was a conscious oddity of priests.1946, Herbert McKay, The World of Numbers, Cambridge University Press, →OL, page 42. From the entry deasil
  • Lateral parting of the hair is customary, while the pompadour and middle parting is a relatively unusual deviation, an oddity.1901, Medical Council, volume 6, page 425. From the entry parter
  • Here, cold water rises from the depths, sometimes bringing with it deep-dwelling oddities such as the big-eyed beryciforms: shiny slimeheads and fangteeth.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 83. From the entry beryciform
  • Rarely seen or heard, the eastern black rail is one of the more mysterious birds in a state full of aviarian oddities.2021 February 20, Chad Gillis, “Florida wildlife agency to add rarely seen eastern black rail to endangered species list”, in The…. From the entry aviarian
  • They were considered an oddity but you have to remember that at the time Roxy Music, now everyone's seminal band, were seen as very poppy.2010, Daryl Easlea, “Island Life”, in Talent is an Asset: The Story of Sparks, London; New York, N.Y.: Omnibus Press, →ISBN. From the entry poppy
  • Alongside the mass as a means of providing access to the consecrated elements, there is the oddity of the holding of masses without any consecration.1995, Robert N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215–c.1515, page 139. From the entry dry mass
  • The short answer would be that both bear the customary stigmata of avant-garde prose: typographical oddity, under-punctuation, a liberal sprinkling of the four-letter words.1958 March 9, Rayner Heppenstall, “Tramp-Reality”, in The Observer, number 8,697, London, page 17. From the entry under-punctuation
  • Ground penetrating radar can map the foundation of Gulem menhir and establish its identity either as a natural geological oddity, a natural inselberg or a manmade menhir.2016 December 4, “Archaeological Mystery of Gulem Menhir”, in The Navhind Times. From the entry inselberg
  • But Weil remained interested in learning more about the Japanese girl-games about teen soldiers in sailor skirts, about the dollhouse oddities filigreed with princess crowns and Barbie branding.2014 June 5, Leigh Alexander, “Girly video games: rewriting a history of pink”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian…. From the entry sailor skirt
  • An oddity of the auto-train services, incidentally, was the occasional "doubling", usually for football excursions, when the load was increased to four coaches with the engine sandwiched between.1959 May, William Jones, John Hodge, “Resorts for Railfans - 28: Cardiff, Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 265. From the entry sandwich
  • Still, Ailes had been observing politicians for decades, and in his long career he had witnessed just about every type and style and oddity and confection and cravenness and mania.2018, Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 3. From the entry cravenness
  • For he was an oddity, a black multimillionaire who summered on the Riviera, had an apartment in Paris and a penthouse, in a building he owned, high above Sugar Hill.1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 228. From the entry summer

Meaning of oddity

  1. noun An odd or strange thing or opinion.
  2. noun A strange person; an oddball.
  3. noun Strangeness.

Full definition of oddity

Questions about oddity in a sentence

How do you use oddity in a sentence?
Oddity is used as a noun. For example: “The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.”
What is a short sentence with oddity?
“Eire - now an oddity rarely used, an out-of-date reference.”
What does oddity mean?
Oddity means an odd or strange thing or opinion.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oddity (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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