How to Use oddball in a Sentence

oddball

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  • He used to be a real oddball back in high school.
  • Do not make any phone calls to the numbers given in the these oddball texts.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Pythons were each their own kind of oddball, and the bits are only funny with fresh bite.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • And then, of course, there’s the musical’s oddball track.
    — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • But the feathery oddball is so quick that nobody's been able to catch it.
    — Scottie Andrew and Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 1 Aug. 2019
  • The Inspire 3 launched just last year, while the Luxe is a bit of an oddball in Fitbit’s lineup.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 21 Aug. 2023
  • But the film’s achievement is the fly-on-the-wall view of personal moments and oddball songs.
    — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 1 Feb. 2021
  • The Snapdragon 675 is the one oddball listing in that spec sheet.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Set in 1970s Japan, Tomoko is sent to stay with her oddball aunt and uncle in their mansion.
    — Shannon Carlin, TIME, 31 July 2024
  • Is the oddball who moved in next door (Rupert Friend as the fictional Ernest Donovan), in the dead of night, a threat?
    — Robert Lloyd, latimes.com, 12 June 2018
  • Photonic qubits are the oddball of the three that seem to be succeeding.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Cozy, oddball, and very much autumnal, this movie is one of the great fall classics.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2022
  • As the day wound down and the last oddballs in full ghillie suits and neon green kilts stumbled off the distillery grounds, the sun was still nowhere near setting.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
  • Sailors, at least, love the wind, and there are even some oddballs who fancy a bit of fog (they’re called Londoners).
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2023
  • His character is a friend to Ted, as well as a sounding board and a kind of oddball savant.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The oddball guise is one of many that Alvarez has dreamed up and posted to social media since 2020.
    — Shane Barnes, Pitchfork, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The oddball Fringe vibe could be felt through the screens: DK Reinemer riffed on the same song for an hour in a bizarrely entertaining show.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 4 May 2021
  • There are stars that are oddballs, the ones that interest the astrophysics types.
    — Eugene Parker, National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2019
  • It was followed by an oddball one-off called Teenagers From Outer Space.
    — Darryn King, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The Bruins had a 3-2 lead after 40 minutes thanks to shaky work from Blackwood, and an oddball strike from Steen.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2022
  • To my young self — feeling like an oddball in a new school in a new city — Neptune seemed a kindred spirit.
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2021
  • For the initial 10 minutes, the oddball questions remained in left field.
    — Chronicle News Services, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Pack horses ferried food up to the cabins of the artsy oddballs in Laurel Canyon.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Wish, like Temu, for a while blitzed Facebook and Google with ads pitching oddball products such as meat socks.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Girls5eva is an oddball love letter to the girl group/boy band industrial complex of the late '90s.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Britain has some of the world’s leading climate-change researchers, activists, and oddball thinkers.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021
  • This oddball would have lived when more modern-looking animals, such as snails, cephalopods and corals, were on the rise.
    — Riley Black, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2023
  • In the past eight years, content creation has gone from an oddball way for athletes to build a brand to one of the go-to side hustles for Olympic hopefuls.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
  • The festivals are done; Brat Summer is dead; and a glorious calm has fallen as music’s oddballs come out to play.
    — Pitchfork, 2 Oct. 2024
  • For example, mature bucks often push does into oddball locations to get them away from other deer.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 3 Oct. 2024

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