oddballs

Example Sentences

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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

Amtrak has a special way of attracting interesting oddballs from all over the country.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

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