oddballs
Example Sentences
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The Italian feature is a droll, Coen brothers-style exercise in deadpan absurdity, with a zigzag plot that caroms off a pleasingly demented cast of oddballs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
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
They wind up getting cast, under strained dramatic circumstances, in the school musical, and a romance of sensitive oddballs blossoms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
Others are just attention-grabbing oddballs, like Golden Curls, a corkscrew willow with twisted yellow stems.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Other mutant flies had forked bristles; sable-colored bodies; curved legs; bent, batlike wings; disjointed abdomens; deformed eyes—a Halloween’s parade of oddballs.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
