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
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
Together these wide-ranging collections gather stories, essays, book reviews, journalism, poems, playlets, recipes, comics and numerous other Sladekian oddments.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 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
