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
Such plans ought, by all means, to be encouraged; but they are not—whatever Captain Maconochie, and other zealous reformers, say to the contrary—the first and peculiar object for which a prison is designed.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
