oddments

Example Sentences

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Though the resulting story can seem cobbled together, with obvious seams where oddments have been joined, its bright patchwork of anecdotes acquires its own strange logic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

“For eight dreary decades they plodded along in near‐obscurity, mere oddments in the game of baseball’s great geometric design,” Wells Twombly wrote.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

And in crazy quilts, oddments of fabric rub up against each other to the point of dizziness.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2019

And there are those, like this reporter, whose magpie ambition is to collect random shiny conversational oddments like the one above.

From New York Times • May 8, 2017

The temporary lodger, in his turn, stood and bowed to them, then returned to his pack of wooden oddments, sorting, arranging and polishing.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman