oddballs
Example Sentences
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With its zesty appreciation for the city’s landscape of oddballs, menacing and disarming alike, “Tuner” has some similarity to one of last year’s best pictures, “Caught Stealing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
As directed by James Griffiths, Mr. Basden and Mr. Key’s screenplay hearkened back to “Local Hero” with its warm glow of appreciation for U.K. oddballs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Comedy nerds and oddballs of all stripes embraced the show, especially its singularly off-putting heroine, a woman with a garish overbite, a sordid past and a strangely infectious nasal drawl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
Others are just attention-grabbing oddballs, like Golden Curls, a corkscrew willow with twisted yellow stems.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Some of his new employees were distinctly oddballs for an academic laboratory.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
