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
Like some kind of industrious magpie, the designer Anna Sui has spent decades assiduously gathering up shiny oddments from the pop culture landscape and shaping them into a singular career in fashion design.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2019
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
‘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
