PECULIARITY in a Sentence
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242 example sentences for PECULIARITY, such as:
1. They behaved in a very peculiar way.
2. I had a peculiar feeling we'd met before.
3. There was a peculiar smell in the kitchen.
4. For some peculiar reason, she refused to come inside.
5. I find her attitude a bit peculiar, to say the least.
2. I had a peculiar feeling we'd met before.
3. There was a peculiar smell in the kitchen.
4. For some peculiar reason, she refused to come inside.
5. I find her attitude a bit peculiar, to say the least.
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Meanings and Examples of PECULIARITY
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peculiarity
n. an odd or unusual characteristic
n. something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures.
2 The peculiarity of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses into spectators.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XI—CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED
3 A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in that aurora England and Germany have a magnificent radiance.
4 An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders.
5 Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other the redoubtable talents of a convict.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
6 It is the peculiarity of certain persons and certain professions, notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical occasions.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY
7 The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.
8 It was a flood tide complicated with a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people adored both Napoleon and liberty.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
9 From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
10 The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures.
11 Besides, since our despair has this peculiarity, that it envelops others as well as ourselves, it seemed logical to him that all the world should come thither to die.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC
12 He continued: his words poured forth, as is the peculiarity of divine paroxysms of joy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
13 Day after day she looked fearfully into the child's expanding nature, ever dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity that should correspond with the guiltiness to which she owed her being.
14 One peculiarity of the child's deportment remains yet to be told.
15 The Aged's reading reminded me of the classes at Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's, with the pleasanter peculiarity that it seemed to come through a keyhole.
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it.
2 The lack of a written constitution is a peculiarity of the British political system.
3 These small spiced cakes are a peculiarity of the region.
4 There, a fundamental peculiarity is that the image elements do not influence each other while the image is being reconstructed.
5 I find her attitude a bit peculiar, to say the least.
6 They behaved in a very peculiar way.
7 I had a peculiar feeling we'd met before.
8 Some time ago, however, a peculiar fish was caught near Madagascar.
9 For some peculiar reason, she refused to come inside.
10 There was a peculiar smell in the kitchen.
11 A peculiar austerity marked his judgments of modern life.
12 It was the enlightened afrancesados who were to confuse political issues by their peculiar relation to liberalism.
13 Government by coalition has its own peculiar set of problems.
14 Once you have tasted life in southern California, it takes a peculiar kind of masochism to return to a British winter.
15 He has his own peculiar style which you'll soon get used to.