oddments

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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

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

There, in Dallben’s chamber, moldering tomes overflowed the sagging shelves and spilled onto the floor amid heaps of iron cook-pots, studded belts, harps with or without strings, and other oddments.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander