ODD in a Sentence

Learn ODD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
230 example sentences for ODD, such as:
1. The system has some odd little quirks.
2. He pushed back his hat in an odd comic way.
3. I had a very odd dream about you last night.
4. The odd thing was that he didn't recognize me.
5. The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ODD
odd
 a.  not divisible by two
 a.  an indefinite quantity more than that specified
Classic Sentence: (197 in 14 pages)
1  There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  There was eighty odd pounds in it, but nothing had been taken.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
3  Then there was silence; and a cow coughed; and that led her to say how odd it was, as a child, she had never feared cows, only horses.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  Then they talked as if they had known each other all their lives; which was odd, she said, as they always did, considering she'd known him perhaps one hour.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
5  I don't believe" she said with her odd little smile, "that there ever were such people.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
6  Mr. Utterson had been some minutes at his post, when he was aware of an odd, light footstep drawing near.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
7  "And by all accounts a very odd writer," added the lawyer.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
8  Some two months before the murder of Sir Danvers, I had been out for one of my adventures, had returned at a late hour, and woke the next day in bed with somewhat odd sensations.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
9  Mr. Bounderby looked very hard at the good lady in a side-long way that had an odd sheepishness about it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
10  He pushed back his hat in an odd comic way.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
11  It was a very odd look, this look of impudence: as if he were triumphing over life in spite of life.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  She looked down at the milky odd little flowers among the brown maiden-hair at the lower tip of her body.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
13  She watched him with amusement, his odd intentness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
14  He was looking at her with an odd, flickering smile, faintly sensual and appreciative.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  She saw the image of him, naked white with tanned face and hands, looking down and addressing his erect penis as if it were another being, the odd grin flickering on his face.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  There may be the odd flurry of snow over the hills tonight.
2  Charles was an odd character whom Kelly had never really taken to.
3  Fay's always making excuses for her husband's odd behavior.
4  She sat silently, flinging the odd word into the conversation from time to time.
5  I find him really odd - I can't figure him out at all.
6  I find it odd that she takes so long to do that job.
7  Guess which number of the following sequence is the odd one out.
8  She made a cushion out of odd bits of material.
9  I had a very odd dream about you last night.
10  It seemed rather an odd manner of deciding things.
11  The odd thing was that he didn't recognize me.
12  I had an odd sense of deja vu just as you said that.
13  Many of these street people seemed to support themselves by panhandling and doing odd jobs.
14  The system has some odd little quirks.
15  The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English.