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• That tintinnabular peculiarity of the British nation, the semihourly bell.From the entry tintinnabular
• The peculiarities of the author are beginning to crop out.From the entry crop out
• Because English spelling was becoming standardized in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Great Vowel Shift is responsible for many of the peculiarities of English spelling.From the entry Great Vowel Shift
• These peculiarities depend largely on the moisture requirements of the terricole species.2013, M.S. Mani, Ecology and Biogeography of High Altitude Insects, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry terricole
• Long ago William T. had noticed this vocal peculiarity and now he could not unnotice it.2010, Alison McGhee, Was It Beautiful?: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry unnotice
• Known for his interest in capturing the peculiarities of contemporary life, often in small-scale, portraitlike works, Mr.2007 April 6, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry portraitlike
• The magnetic forces are thought to be the key to these stars' several peculiarities.1962, Wasley Sven Krogdahl, The Astronomical Universe, Macmillan, page 390. From the entry ultrahot
• This Tom has a peculiarity I've noticed in other very oofy men.1934, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 3 Duke of York Street St. James's…. From the entry oofy
• Examination of the myology of the Comephoridae, an endemic fish family in Lake Baikal, has revealed their morphological peculiarities.2000, M. Yabe, V. G. Sideleva, “Myological peculiarities of the comephoridae: an endeimc fish taxon in Lake Baikal (Pisces: Teleostei)”…. From the entry myology
• Marc Chagall comes from Vitebsk but has nothing Jewish about him in looks, in manner, in any peculiarities.1978, Sidney Alexander, Marc Chagall: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 460. From the entry semi-naïf
• A malady that was rare, but which because of its peculiarity elicited much comment, was "night blindness" or "gravel."1943, Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255. From the entry gravel
• Fielding is let off lightly with a running comment on his misspellings and other peculiarities of style—deliberate punning and emvoweling.1915, Gerard Edward Jensen, “Introduction”, in The Covent Garden Journal, volume I, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 69. From the entry emvowel
• So many Madonnas were produced during the Renaissance that it became the habit to distinguish them by any peculiarity.1913, “Art Galleries of Florence”, in The World’s Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin…. From the entry madonna
• “Great men have their surprising peculiarities,” I observed inanely.1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, Penguin Classics, published 2007, page 138. From the entry characteristic
• These (combined) peculiarities reveal a number of gaps in our corporate accountability regime, in particular when it comes to broken sustainability promises and greenwashing.2018 February, Sarah Dadush, “Why You Should Be Unsettled by the Biggest Automotive Settlement in History”, in University of Colorado Law…. From the entry redwashing
• That's all right, although it has the peculiarity that 5 is larger than -7 as an integer, but smaller than -7 as a Gaussian integer!1997, Bernard L. Johnston, Fred Richman, Numbers and Symmetry: An Introduction to Algebra, CRC Press, page 44. From the entry Gaussian integer
• A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form and that of the human with whom it is connected.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 121. From the entry sympathy
• A flashdamp mixture is often lighter than air and presents the peculiarity strange to mines, of extinguishing a light at the roof.1917, Coal Age: With Which is Consolidated The Colliery Engineer: Devoted to Coal Mining and Coke Manufacture, volume 11, McGraw-Hill…. From the entry flashdamp
• Golf brings out idiosyncrasies and peculiarities.1910, Arnold Haultain, The Mystery of Golf, The Macmillan Company, page 197. From the entry innumerability
• The only peculiarities of deposit-receipts consist in the consideration of how far endorsation of the deposit-receipt is equivalent to the money alleged to be donated.1908, The Scottish Law Reporter, volume 45. From the entry endorsation
• In this paper we introduce a new class of ultrafunctions, called tempered ultrafunctions, which are somewhat related to the tem- pered distributions and present some interesting peculiarities..2015, Vieri Benci, “Tempered ultrafunctions”, in arXiv. From the entry ultrafunctions
• Professor Gran's peculiar insight into the literary mind and its curious, often repulsive, peculiarities is singularly interesting, and casts an entirely new light upon the much bepondered Rousseau.1911, The Book Buyer, page 221. From the entry beponder
• This British peculiarity, this psychopathic abhorrence for open spaces in fanzines, has been remarked on by many people but until this moment nobody has explained the real reason for it.1961 August, Walter Alexander Willis, “Black Mail”, in Willis Papers. From the entry faned

Meaning of peculiarity

1. noun The state or quality of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.
2. noun That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; a particularity.
3. noun Exclusive possession or right.

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Questions about peculiarity in a sentence

How do you use peculiarity in a sentence?

Peculiarity is used as a noun. For example: “The peculiarity of meeting six people on a usually deserted trail only struck me later on.”

What is a short sentence with peculiarity?

“Golf brings out idiosyncrasies and peculiarities.”

What does peculiarity mean?

Peculiarity means the state or quality of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.