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• Jones ends up feeling oddly secondary in a story that’s supposed to be his grand finale.2023 June 28, Lauren Coates, “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny review: Harrison Ford goes to the whip”, in AV Club. From the entry center stage
• Given their stated hurry in 4, Franklin's question seems oddly nonsequitous.2022 January 27, Catherine Richardson, Arden of Faversham, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry nonsequitous
• At the top of the oval, sat Dagwood behind an oddly shaped desk.2020 May 19, Thomas O'Callaghan, No One Will Hear Your Screams: A Novel, WildBlue Press, →ISBN. From the entry skinema
• Conversely, infinite wealth should probably have infinity utilons, though large numbers might behave oddly.2019 June 18, Agustin Lebron, The Laws of Trading: A Trader's Guide to Better Decision-Making for Everyone, Hoboken, New Jersey: John…. From the entry utilon
• Dawkins’ book is, oddly, much more embittered and deeply emotional, although leavened by his effervescent wit.2011, Philip W. Anderson, More and Different: Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry embittered
• It's an odd little confection, the tête-bêche, but it's oddly pleasing.2011 July 28, David Barnett, “Tête-bêche books make a speculative return”, in The Guardian. From the entry tête-bêche
• Beckham is oddly unsensual on television; she somehow takes the sin out of synergy.2007 July 16, Alessandra Stanley, “New Girl in Town Gets Settled With Hubby”, in New York Times. From the entry unsensual
• Directly after Julia is Patricia, who, oddly enough, is another young blond mother from the suburbs.2004, Z Paul Lorenc, Trish Hall, A Little Work. From the entry A cup
• Oddly, Agayan was surprised more by the fact of those words than their actual content.2001, Eric Flint, “Carthago Delenda Est”, in Foreign Legions, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 253. From the entry galactic
• Oddly, while abhoring Lamarch’s transformism for degrading the “godlike race,” Brewster openly patronized Grant.1992, Adrian Desmond, The Politics of Evolution. From the entry abhoring
• It was pretty hard work, but oddly enough everyone felt more cheerful.1951, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia, London: Geoffrey Bles, →OCLC. From the entry second wind
• Giraffes, oddly, sometimes have gall bladders and sometimes donʼt.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 178. From the entry gall bladder
• Then there are the YouTube hauls, the oddly viral videos of influencers showing off what they got for Christmas.2018 December 24, Rachel Siegel, “Holiday shopping in the age of Instagram”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, N.S.W.: Nine…. From the entry haul
• The girls, it turns out, found the experience oddly positive, and not because they were brainwashed or Stockholm syndromed.2015 July 17, Sarah Lyall, “Review: In 'Pretty Is,' Grown Friends Recall Being Kidnapped”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry Stockholm syndrome
• Most oddly, the controversy that trailed the emergence of Dr.2012, Bonn Obiekwe Godwin Nwanolue, Chike Osegbue, Victor Chidubem Iwuoha, “Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Nigerian Democracy”, in…. From the entry ambiguify
• They are pardalotes, tiny little feathered jewels with stubby bills and stubby tails, giving an oddly ladybird-like silhouette.2011, Ian Fraser, Peter Marsack, A Bush Capital Year: A Natural History of the Canberra Region, page 137. From the entry pardalote
• If your eggs Florentine have chalky yolks, or if your dessert crêpe tastes oddly of oregano, well, so what?2011 June 16, Lila Byock, “Lina Frey”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry eggs Florentine
• An oddly lucid part of his stunned mind registered that these were the first fruiting bodies he'd seen.2008, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, Slow Train to Arcturus. From the entry xenobotany
• The scene was oddly reminiscent of a bunch of Venetian gondolieres gone berserk with their oars, but the effort paid off.2007, Antonia Riley, chapter 2, in The Sweetness of Bitter Water, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry gondoliere
• Oddly, he seemed to understand why I kept hitting him.2005, Tim Moore, Spanish Steps, page 196. From the entry raisin
• His sword of rank adangle oddly, his puttees immaculately wound the wrong way round, was that a whistle he had hanging?2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 11, in At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, page 325. From the entry adangle
• Oddly enough, eagles, hawks, and other large birds of prey are not the birds that typically terrify ornithophobes.1992, Don Nardo, Anxiety and Phobias, page 56. From the entry ornithophobe
• Henry Payton joined Alan on the sidelines during the conclusion of the oddly delicate ballet known as On-Scene Investigation.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things. From the entry ballet
• He was an unusual and intelligent Hamlet, oddly unactorlike.1991, Robert Liddell, The Last Enchantments, page 96. From the entry unactorlike
• Oddly enough, there was a woman involved.1979, Penelope Mortimer, About Time, Allan Lane, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry Diane
• Oddly enough, it had never yet occurred to her to wonder what other women made of Peter, or he of them.1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night. From the entry middle name
• She is wigless again today, although Maggie is oddly relieved to note that she has at least chosen to wind a scarf around her head.2019, Julia Armfield, “Granite”, in Salt Slow, Picador, pages 122-123. From the entry wigless
• So, too, it’s oddly redolent of the Monkees, neighborhood stickaburr fights and going to the stock car races at Star Speedway in Epping, N.H.2009 March 26, Dana Jennings, “With a Buzz Cut, I Can Take on Anything”, in New York Times. From the entry stickaburr
• Altman has managed to whip together an affecting, smart and oddly sincere movie out of a ratty script and three great actresses.1982 December 25, Michael Bronski, “Dime Store Dreamin'”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 23, page 10. From the entry whip together
• And oddly enough I did sleep.1966, Ngaio Marsh, Death at the Dolphin, page 160. From the entry knock up
• They are nervous, triggerish, energetic, and — oddly enough — physically enduring, as they must be to survive the New York, New Haven and Hartford.1957, Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play, page 76. From the entry triggerish
• Young Bob's oddly penetrant voice was raised, to his father's uneasiness, in opposition to Grayson, and thus providentially deflected the ordeal from Charles.1952, Vincent Sheean, Rage of the Soul, page 82. From the entry penetrant
• Each settler picked out the piece of land that he or, in some instances, she desired which resulted in oddly shaped plats when they were later surveyed.2011, Don Corbly, Pastor John Corbly and his neighbors in Greene Township, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry tomahawk
• Rachel was on the phone in the drawing room, talking to Gerald in Westminster, and seemed to be getting the reassurances she needed; she was oddly placable.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 16, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 392. From the entry placable
• Even if you cannot tell Mercator's projection from anyone else's, you can appreciate these oddly distorted but touchingly sincere portraits of the earth as viewed from another age.1983 April 10, R.V. Denenberg, “THE PAST SEEN IN A WORLD OF MAPS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24…. From the entry Chinese Tartary
• A scrubby beard covered his face to the cheekbones, giving him an air of ruffianism that went oddly with his large weak frame and nervous movements.1949, George Orwell, 1984, published 1949, page 242 (in Part III, Chapter I). From the entry ruffianism

Meaning of oddly

1. adverb In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.
2. adverb In a manner measured by an odd number.

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Questions about oddly in a sentence

How do you use oddly in a sentence?

Oddly is used as an adverb. For example: “For December, it was oddly warm.”

What is a short sentence with oddly?

“And oddly enough I did sleep.”

What does oddly mean?

Oddly means in a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.