oddballs
Example Sentences
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But these songs are mostly character-driven rather than diaristic, offering brief snapshots of oddballs moving through a confusing landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
With its zesty appreciation for the city’s landscape of oddballs, menacing and disarming alike, “Tuner” has some similarity to one of last year’s best pictures, “Caught Stealing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
But the scenes she’s devised for these sympathetically difficult oddballs go nowhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
“Joey” was something different, and also more usual, a gathering of oddballs around a main character on a set that found them all a place to sit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
Other mutant flies had forked bristles; sable-colored bodies; curved legs; bent, batlike wings; disjointed abdomens; deformed eyes—a Halloween’s parade of oddballs.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
