oddments
Example Sentences
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Though the resulting story can seem cobbled together, with obvious seams where oddments have been joined, its bright patchwork of anecdotes acquires its own strange logic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
And in crazy quilts, oddments of fabric rub up against each other to the point of dizziness.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2019
Like some kind of industrious magpie, the designer Anna Sui has spent decades assiduously gathering up shiny oddments from the pop culture landscape and shaping them into a singular career in fashion design.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2019
Together these wide-ranging collections gather stories, essays, book reviews, journalism, poems, playlets, recipes, comics and numerous other Sladekian oddments.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2019
There, in Dallben’s chamber, moldering tomes overflowed the sagging shelves and spilled onto the floor amid heaps of iron cook-pots, studded belts, harps with or without strings, and other oddments.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
