odd bird

Example Sentences

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An odd bird it is, dwelling in a dusty room that lacks a window or a view.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2024

“It’s an odd bird in the sense of it’s not an obvious thing,” he said.

From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2020

Robbie’s fictional Kayla, a self-proclaimed “evangelical millennial,” is not an easily classifiable political type but a believably odd bird.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2019

I was always an odd bird, I didn’t really fit anywhere.

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2016

When a bird dies out of the working flock it is dissected to determine the sex and another of the same sex is placed in the fly to mate with the odd bird.

From Profitable Squab Breeding by Dare, Carl