oddments
Example Sentences
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Though the resulting story can seem cobbled together, with obvious seams where oddments have been joined, its bright patchwork of anecdotes acquires its own strange logic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
“For eight dreary decades they plodded along in near‐obscurity, mere oddments in the game of baseball’s great geometric design,” Wells Twombly wrote.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
The “bricoleur addresses himself to a collection of oddments left over from human endeavours”, said Lévi-Strauss, and his motto, according to the critic Gérard Genette, is: “That might always come in handy.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2016
The bond is inevitably looser than the real thing, generally fleeting, and yet there is something telling about the random oddments of criteria that contribute to the choice.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2015
He had to make do with oddments assembled from Lord Lefford's wagons: mail hauberk and coif, a dead knight's gorget, lobstered greaves and gauntlets and pointed steel boots.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
