oddballs

Example Sentences

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Change-inducing nonconformists are out there on the edge of progress, pushing that boulder up the hill, sweating and usually being called oddballs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

These oddballs have little in common besides their defiance of village norms and their families’ mutual disapproval.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Others are just attention-grabbing oddballs, like Golden Curls, a corkscrew willow with twisted yellow stems.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Compared to the familiar moons of our Solar System, they would all be oddballs: at least twice the size of Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System and therefore almost as big as Earth.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023

A few oddballs from the Political Science department wore black armbands.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt