oddball

Example Sentences

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In the sections of “Why We Make,” displays of historic artisanry are too often marred by oddball amateurism.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

"For a long time, no one knew quite what to make of these oddball little blips of dimming," Bouma said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

Graham’s tweaked, sensitive patriarch is tantalizingly far from the heartbreaking dad of “Adolescence” and the gloriously oddball Riseborough makes the most of her faint-voiced mom’s severity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

They followed it up with the vibrant, oddball, goosebumpy 3D Country in early 2023.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

I really am an oddball, he thought, with a feeling of disappointment.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart