oddball

Example Sentences

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"For a long time, no one knew quite what to make of these oddball little blips of dimming," Bouma said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

Graham’s tweaked, sensitive patriarch is tantalizingly far from the heartbreaking dad of “Adolescence” and the gloriously oddball Riseborough makes the most of her faint-voiced mom’s severity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

He cut his teeth as a martial arts expert and stand-up comic before becoming an oddball character in the mid-1990s television sitcom “News Radio.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

They followed it up with the vibrant, oddball, goosebumpy 3D Country in early 2023.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

But I had a striking sense that if I’d had a son, he would, at the core, be a lot like this brainy, combative oddball sitting in a musty apartment in a small Idaho town.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz