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How to use peculiar in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Peculiar means out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual. Example: “The sky had a peculiar appearance before the storm.”

Examples of peculiar by meaning

adjectiveOut of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.

  • The sky had a peculiar appearance before the storm.
  • It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.
  • But over the past two decades their numbers in Venezuela's capital have skyrocketed, with hundreds of these birds now flying freely across the city, and dazzling locals with their colorful feathers and peculiar calls.2026 April 18, Manuel Rueda, “Caracas' iconic macaws threatened by vanishing palm trees”, in National Public Radio, Washington, D.C....

adjectiveCommon or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.

  • Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.

More sentences with peculiar

  • He explained away an especially peculiar sighting with another helping of good old swamp gas.From the entry swamp gas
  • Her eyes had a peculiar glazedness, as though she couldn't see us.From the entry glazedness
  • Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.From the entry condition
  • The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.From the entry rhyme
  • Some of my father's peculiar expressions have stuck with me.From the entry stick with
  • "Your victory has motivated other guild members to try out your peculiar strategy.2025, Cube Kid [pseudonym; Erik Gunnar Taylor], Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Hour of Enchantment, page 117. From the entry sagely
  • Spartan helotage represents perhaps the most peculiar slave system studied in this book.2018, David M. Lewis, Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800–146 BC, Oxford University Press, →ISBN. From the entry helotage
  • The peculiar gun—obviously a dart gun—appeared to be a single-shot device.2017, Sharon Ervin, Memory. From the entry dart gun
  • The bagpipe suddenly screeled in a peculiar off-beat, sending chills down Neil's spine.2016, Melanie Tem, Out of the House of Darkness. From the entry screel
  • Kleptomnesia happens due to a pragmatic, but peculiar, feature of how human memory is wired.2015 January 2, Adam Grant, “The Biggest Reason We Steal Other People’s Ideas”, in Time, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2016. From the entry kleptomnesia
  • The child molesters (chomos, they are called) were a peculiar group.2012, Conrad Black, A Matter of Principle, page 451. From the entry chomo
  • Of all the peculiar terms you may encounter in techdom, Bluetooth is one of our favorites.2009, Edward C. Baig, Bob LeVitus, iPhone For Dummies. From the entry techdom
  • Only don't ruin your stomach, it gives a peculiar teaish idiom to your work.2009, William Carlos Williams, Andrew Krivak, The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912, page 291. From the entry teaish
  • Sarah Palin has stepped in with her peculiar style of speaking.2008 November 13, “Thus spake Sarah Palin”, in Daily News and Analysis, India, retrieved 20 Aug 2010. From the entry Palinism
  • The effect creates a xenochronous composition out of a peculiar matching of quite disparate pieces.2007, Kevin Courrier, Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN. From the entry xenochronous
  • Klass belonged to the small and somewhat peculiar class of individuals known as debunkers.2005 December 25, Michael Sokolove, “The Debunker”, in The New York Times Magazine. From the entry debunker
  • This peculiar anthropological docetism, or pandemonism, is not compatible with the Christian faith.2004, Boris Jakim, The Comforter, page 226. From the entry pandemonism
  • From this his explication of Christian life experience has its peculiar structure.2004, Martin Heidegger, translated by Matthias Fritsch and Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferenci, “The Fundamental Posture of Paul [the Apostle]”…. From the entry explicational
  • Now, the nucleus of a heavy element is a very peculiar beast.2003, John Derbyshire, Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problems in Mathematics. From the entry beast
  • But for Valdecarrasca's notorious womaniser to hold back seemed very peculiar.'2002, Anne Weale [pseudonym; Jay Blakeney], A Spanish Honeymoon, Richmond: Mills & Boon, →ISBN, page 277. From the entry bedwise
  • However, one cannot produce gargalesis in oneself; the present investigation focuses on this peculiar fact.1999, Christine R. Harris, Nicholas Christenfeld, “Can a machine tickle?”, in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6(3) pp. 504-510. From the entry knismesis
  • The peculiar links between land, labour, credit and market have trapped the peasants of Kalahandi region.1996, P Sainath, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218. From the entry Kalahandi
  • The solitary and relatively anonymous character of monkeywrenching gave that activity a peculiar role within the movement.1995, Martha F. Lee, Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry monkeywrenching
  • The peculiar term "Yardfowl" has been with us for nearly 40 years.[1986, Sanka Price, Jr., editor, Politics Barbados: The Guide to the General Election, 1986, Bridgetown, Barbados: Barbados Labour Party…. From the entry yardfowl
  • Each Replica of it will be a Rhematic Indexical Sinsign of a peculiar kind.1985, Charles S[anders] Peirce, “Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs”, in Robert E. Innis, editor, Semiotics: An Introductory…. From the entry sinsign
  • Others believe the coati to be a peculiar kind of arboreal anteater.1974, Bil Gilbert, “Chulo”, in Backpacker, page 89. From the entry coati
  • The peculiar thing about that war is that the Centaurans gave up.1974, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 46, Mercury Press, page 64. From the entry Centauran
  • In some instances, peculiar to the proportions present, some supernatant liquid will be present.1974, The Chemical Formulary: A Condensed Collection of Valuable, Timely, Practical Formulae for Making Thousands of Products in All…. From the entry semiuniform
  • This looked peculiar at first, but not unpleasing when one gets used to it.1950 December, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—6”, in Railway Magazine, page 843. From the entry unpleasing
  • I must say the whole of Oxford has become most peculiar suddenly.1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 1, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego)…. From the entry pullulate
  • A female wharfinger—a grade of staff peculiar to the Wenford Mineral Line—lives in an adjacent house.1940 December, Charles E. Lee, “The Wenford Mineral Line”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 645. From the entry wharfinger
  • A branch of industry peculiar to Finland is the manufacture of 'puukko' sheath-knives.1938, Suomen Ulkomaankauppaliitto, Finland-United States; 1938, page 145. From the entry sheath-knives
  • It snuffles with its nose on Sylvia’s lap in the manner peculiar to a dog.1933, Rupert Latimer, The Unenchanted Circle, Appleton-Century, page 35. From the entry walkie
  • Its shape was peculiar—an oblong stretching streetwards, interrupted in one of the longer walls by a square.1931, Israel Zangwill, The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies. From the entry streetwards
  • They hand their sandals to the attendant and wear a peculiar footglove made of silk.1915, Motion Picture Story Magazine - Volume 9, page 91. From the entry footglove
  • The peculiar monument called bidental has a decided place in the question of a circular templum.1914, A. L. Frothingham, “Circular templum and mundus. Was the templum only rectangular?”, in American Journal of Archaeology, volume 18…. From the entry bidental

Meaning of peculiar

  1. adjective Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.
  2. adjective Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
  3. adjective One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not shared or possessed by others.

Full definition of peculiar

Questions about peculiar in a sentence

How do you use peculiar in a sentence?
Peculiar is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The sky had a peculiar appearance before the storm.”
What is a short sentence with peculiar?
“Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.”
What does peculiar mean?
Peculiar means out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.

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