peculiar object
Example Sentences
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Then they saw a peculiar object jutting out of the ground.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022
In 2015, around the time the survey was winding down, Wright heard about a peculiar object that another astronomer, Tabetha Boyajian, was investigating.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2019
No black holes, no wormholes -- just a spaceship traveling at near light speed, and a peculiar object called a cosmic string.
From Time Magazine Archive
He turned away from the window and his gaze fell upon another peculiar object standing upon the cluttered, curved sideboard: a stone bust of a beautiful but austere-looking witch wearing a most bizarre-looking headdress.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
And so, indeed, in breathing creatures be The several senses, of which each takes in Unto itself, in its own fashion ever, Its own peculiar object.
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
