odds and ends
Example Sentences
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While the June war reduced Iran’s nuclear program to odds and ends, together these could help the regime rebuild and pursue a bomb again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
In contrast to a designer, a tinkerer must, Jacob argued, manage with odds and ends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
"Small independents like myself are only allowed to order from a list of random mismatched odds and ends that the big shops clearly didn't want," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
Yet when tucked into the contemporary olive bar’s curated mix of marinated odds and ends, they become an edible time capsule of peak summer, waiting to be put back to work.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2025
A surging sweep of many odds and ends came together and formed an attitude, a perspective.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
