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
His character, as a man, was open and candid; but the gipsy often acted, to render it stubborn and sullen when oppressed, or even wily and artful when some peculiar object was to be gained.
From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
