Use "odd" in a sentence

1. The day was fine and warm but I was wearing a wool hat to cover my scars – rather odd in the circumstances so I was

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2. He does a lot of odd jobs around the bar but he mostly just hangs around here to drink

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3. How very odd that it should matter …

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4. Odd, I can’t see him as a family man … but Stephen says he was desperate for children … so terribly sad about the baby … who could shoot a pregnant woman? The thought makes me shiver suddenly; there’s someone out there who took a gun, loaded it and shot Joanna Sadler in the back deliberately and then tried to make it look as though Liz Wynell had done it

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5. Despite this, I hear the odd word … which frustratingly tells me nothing!

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6. That’s odd, they don’t say why they are leaving … I’m sure they said they were intending to be in the area for at least five years when they took the place

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7. ‘That sounds very odd

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8. knocked a double garage door in the rear wall so we could bring the odd car under

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9. The funny thing was that when on the odd occasion I did sit and day-dream a

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10. of them Tom’s cast-offs, hung around in the background at the odd dance at the

11. I dreamed the odd dream and filed the plans away, never thinking that there would be

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12. without the odd slanging match between me and him in the Legion, he and the boys

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13. dated, had the odd fumble, but a bit like Destiny, that Bond girl who reads the Tarot

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14. ‘That’s the odd thing about it – this Hansford guy isn’t black … but it transpires that his mother is

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15. Point three was most odd, so he ignored it

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16. How odd, he thought, it sounds as though I’m being locked in

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17. Despite the slightly odd circumstances of the evening and the fact that the

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18. started to pull it gently through her sleek, long, black hair, how odd that they still

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19. ‘Sometimes – pretty awful most of them, though you do get the odd one who has a bit of sense about her

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20. This too was odd

21. creative types has taken the odd short cut or two

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22. ‘It was one of those odd coincidences

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23. So in total I had exactly €16500 Euro plus the €475 I held back yesterday and we made up the odd €25 with bits and pieces of change around the house

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24. By the time they have finished, I feel a little better, though my head still feels odd

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25. He refrained from kneeling on me again, contenting himself with screaming obscenities at me and giving me the odd slap around the head or knees

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26. ’ He said deliberately seriously understating the case, ‘In the summer, I tend to get my breakfast and bring it up to eat in bed, and, on the odd occasion when I’ve been ill, it has been a great comfort to be able to see that lot from the bed

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27. He had a long workbench along one wall and odd bits of wood stashed all over the place, under the bench, in racks on the ceiling

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28. I heard odd scufflings and the opening and closing of doors, assuming that it was my guards moving about my new and as yet undiscovered home

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29. Could my distorted mind be playing tricks on me? Was the ultimate nature of my lunacy to take shape in a world of imagined friends, of odd and sundry voices rattling off the walls of my empty head?

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30. Menachem remembered Ben from the odd ex-pat gathering

31. It’s interesting stuff and we have the odd chat

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32. Her unintelligible words were still ringing in the ionized air, when I first noticed those pools of an odd, whitish liquid oozing all over the place

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33. The landscape was magical: A vast seaside of rosy sand stretched before me, an odd treasure of tiny pink diamonds turning white under the shallow sea waves in the distance

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34. ’ He’d also said how odd it had felt being so close to his home and yet so far away from it … Kara knew exactly what he meant now

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35. No family … an only child, her parents had died some years before … few friends of the social variety because over the past fifteen odd years what time she’d had to spare had been spent with Joris and other people had just stopped including her in

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36. something odd at the school gates

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37. Picking up the envelope, she quickly extracted the sheet inside and read it; it was dated twelve years previously … how odd

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38. It’s odd knowing that there are years of my life which I cannot recall

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39. ‘Whereabouts on the island is the touching place, Lintze?’ Berndt asked, producing a map of the island and laying it out on the table, pushing odd bits of tableware out of the way as he does so

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40. ‘How odd that you should have bumped into him

41. An odd mixture of clown and killer … he killed two men yesterday with less compunction than I would swat a wasp

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42. His stories always made me feel odd and out of place but that day, after watching the surfers having so much fun, I gave in and agreed to let him give me my first lesson, as long as we stayed in the sheltered corner, away from the waves

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43. I look round the cabin and slowly accumulate a pile of odd bits and pieces, heaping them up on the bunk so that Berndt can pack them

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44. In the odd moments that you remember to question

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45. ‘On the coast some twenty odd miles south of Bristol

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46. I catch the odd word which seems to mean something but without any great understanding

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47. A few miles further on and we start seeing the odd farmhouse in the landscape

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48. There’s a group of pilgrims ahead of us –how I am going to find the Element? If there are loads of people around, it could be difficult … wouldn’t it? I mean, I can’t go delving … it would look odd

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49. Catching the odd bass is one thing, but I’ve never managed anything other than my own time, and besides, he’s hardly going to take me on in my current state of health, is he!”

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50. What’s that? A light at Jo’s front door? Gracious! Is that a man prancing down the path to the gate? It’s not Jo … yes, it’s definitely a man – Alastair? That’s odd, he usually leaves very quietly … whatever can have happened? Hmmm … what d’you reckon? Should you go and check Jo’s okay or not? Okay, admit your curiosity is going wild! Maybe telephone?

51. They bought a little cottage in the village eked out a meagre living on a residue of royalties gleaned from discount store book sales and the odd spot of lawn mowing that came their way from lineage adverts in the parish newspaper

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52. And although, as he grew older, he was tempted to get some help with the lawn mowing, old Ted could never quite bring himself to ring the telephone number of another old couple in the local village who advertised as odd job gardeners

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53. Our pace quickened for the final thrust and so we raced, slipping and sliding through scattered sun-bleached tree bark, fragments of branches and odd pieces of driftwood that littered the stony ground until we were close enough to resist it no longer

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54. It is odd shopping for two again …

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55. While not a common thing for her to do, she had, of late, started to encourage her husband to spend the odd evening in the lounge bar of the Red Lion, especially on a Thursday when his inevitable armchair snoring disturbed a particularly good night on the box

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56. He tried to respond to his wife and step-daughter, but apart from the odd brief conversation he preferred to occupy his time with work, well away from the sounds of the radio

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57. It was quite odd the way it came about

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58. Thought that rather an odd idea at first – but he wants to incorporate a memorial service for all the victims of tragedies like this as well as celebrating the rescue of Klahan and others like him - it makes sense

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59. ’ I said … this whole thing has been horrendous and I’m feeling quite odd

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60. ‘What has that got to do with anything, Sally? It merely demonstrates that you’ve something to show for the past twenty odd years

61. This was very odd

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62. is in an odd numbered row, either one, three or five

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63. Odd, it stops dead in the middle of a sentence

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64. com provides me with a brilliant map of Naples … the Villa dei Mille, where the Embassy was … and still is for that matter … is in one of the older quarters of the city so it is likely that the area hasn’t changed much in the last fifty odd years

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65. There’s no denying that we make an odd bunch

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66. odd bass is one thing, but I’ve never managed anything other than

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67. What if she is working as a doctor’s receptionist – they do odd hours and that would account for the entries as they are

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68. the cause of his odd behavior

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69. The phones keep me fairly busy and in addition to that, I have to deal with deliveries and the odd caller … and some of them are decidedly odd! The guy who keeps ringing Dave up about crop circles came in and tried to persuade me that I ought to let him speak with Dave

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70. ‘Just the odd bottle

71. royalties gleaned from discount store book sales and the odd spot

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72. It's odd; despite the fact that I have a tendency to throw up whenever I’m emotionally stressed, I rarely catch tummy bugs

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73. We journalists work very odd hours and we'd never see each other if I did that

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74. it feels odd

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75. I drive past the schools I attended, it is all very familiar, yet things have changed … it is odd

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76. After a few years of nothing but Christmas cards and the odd stilted letter between the two women, which Sheila skimmed over rather ineffectually, Don’s job in Italy ended and they went home to Scotland

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77. respond to his wife and step-daughter, but apart from the odd brief

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78. “I find that odd,” I used the opening line from the last time

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79. It feels odd not having Dave to cuddle up to in bed

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80. 'It's odd about those files

81. The tone of the writing is cheerful and contented, I do hope that means that Bunty was happy … There are the usual references to Philip though it is odd that she never mentions her riding … perhaps it was such an ordinary thing she didn’t feel it necessary to note it down at all

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82. This man, her new lover and benefactor, is distinctly odd, too familiar with death, impassive in the presence of abuse, but he is still a man

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83. And so to 2003 … how old is Bunty now? Seventy two … apart from the odd recurrence of the ‘pains’ which she mentions, she seems particularly fit and healthy for her age

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84. Our good doctor is a little odd, but he's tucked up and we'll sort him out later, won't we Davie?"

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85. infrequently by the odd star, whenever the foliage

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86. For Davie the round of check-ups at bars and the odd meeting with Jock’s business contacts moves him that little bit closer to the streets of Glasgow

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87. The only odd thing about it is the day

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88. An odd shaped rock caught her eye and she bent to pick it up

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89. It seems that Leona is burning too many candles at odd angles

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90. That was pretty time consuming to make from odd jobs, you pretty much needed a career or a hustle to do that in one day a week

91. ‘Huff keep safe,’ the odd little man-thing repeated

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92. ‘That’s the odd bit

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93. "Anything odd about the place?"

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94. He walks past a man in scrubs who gives him an odd look but carries on towards the canteen

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95. Everyone is giving him odd looks

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96. They were an odd pair to see, Harry tall and dark-haired with those piercing green eyes, and Jameson already nearly as tall and lanky like his father, with his shock of red curls---an inheritance from his mother

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97. Connor, I have lost an assistant chef to a restaurant in Sacramento and am now short-handed; would you consider allowing Jameson to help out on weeknights and the odd weekend in my kitchens?” She inquired tactfully of the Livery proprietor

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98. ‘Well, it seems a little odd that you and the young lady split up nearly two months ago and this is the first time you have tried to use the credit card

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99. He lets the water fall for ten minutes in a cascade of absolution, and although he can still hear odd notes and bars of the melody deep in the primeval zones of his cortex, he feels as though he is regaining control

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100. the habit of dropping into the mess on odd occasions