odds and ends
Example Sentences
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He said he moved the safe, which contained odds and ends, on a hot day to make more room for election observers.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
About eight years ago she launched a series of Instagram videos in which she whips up meals using leftovers and other odds and ends she finds in her fridge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 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
But there’s joy in piecing together meals from odds and ends in the pantry.
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2024
The walls were covered with knickknacks and baubles, keepsakes and trinkets that mounted up the beams to the corners of the ceiling, all crammed together in a chaotic jumble of odds and ends.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
