oddly

Example Sentences

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It looks like an oddly shaped boat with an arm of floaties extending outward to one end of the rocky shore.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

"Users complained about the model being oddly overfamiliar in conversation, which prompted an investigation into specific verbal tics," the company wrote in its blog post on Thursday.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

But as with the George Washington character he famously portrayed on “SNL,” the measure and logic of his popularity is hard to quantify yet oddly reasonable to the average American.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

The implications, as he describes them, are both sweeping and oddly mundane.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Shouts and grunts and the sounds of machines, and oddly, an orchestra playing somewhere inside.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron