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
And in crazy quilts, oddments of fabric rub up against each other to the point of dizziness.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2019
Together these wide-ranging collections gather stories, essays, book reviews, journalism, poems, playlets, recipes, comics and numerous other Sladekian oddments.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2019
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
Some dressed in fine soft furs, some in boiled leather and oddments of armor, more in wool and sealskins, a few in rags.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
