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
From the A Western Harvest Field By Moonlight EP, another grab bag of early lint-covered oddments, Lampshade has one of Beck’s first truly indelible melodies.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2020
Like some kind of industrious magpie, the designer Anna Sui has spent decades assiduously gathering up shiny oddments from the pop culture landscape and shaping them into a singular career in fashion design.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2019
He had to make do with oddments assembled from Lord Lefford's wagons: mail hauberk and coif, a dead knight's gorget, lobstered greaves and gauntlets and pointed steel boots.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
