oddment

Example Sentences

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The flourlike beaches of Boracay, a narrow oddment of land a brief boat ride from the mainland town of Caticlan, have drawn throngs of foreigners since the '80s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2013

The brothers’ disquieting art films are largely created with stop-motion animation, whereby the illusion of movement is achieved by painstakingly nudging each oddment — say, a puppet or a wood screw — within a scene.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2010

His game was, he picked out an oddment from the heap, polished it, fitted it more or less into the silly puzzle, and stepped back to eye it.

From Foe-Farrell by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

I believe he expected me to give him a receipt in round hundreds and take the "oddment," as we call it in Warwickshire, for myself.

From Pan-Islam by Bury, G. Wyman (George Wyman)