eccentric

Example Sentences

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They seek help at a nearby castle and encounter the eccentric strangers who live there, holding a party.

From BBC

Then, just after the calamity of World War II, in a remote corner of eastern France, he moved Modernism’s goal posts with a single, eccentric, transcendent project.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Gladys has surprised me because she's getting a lot of love back," she said of her Weapons character, an eccentric woman who turns up in a US town just before the local schoolchildren go missing.

From BBC

There were singing mediums, who warbled tunes composed by the spirits, and dancing mediums, who moved in a “very eccentric” manner.

From Literature

He takes his time absorbing every seemingly inconsequential detail as he becomes attached to the personalities of eccentrics on their self-assigned quests to accomplish unlikely goals.

From The Wall Street Journal