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

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

“Why poets write poetry and the birds sing, and the world was beautiful, and god made men and women and little oddments like that. It was like being at the beginning of the world.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2015

‘Only some bundle of oddments, perhaps, after all,’ he thought with a strange sense of relief; but he did not put the bundle down again.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien