Use oddly in a sentence
Sentences starting with oddly
- Oddly enough the presence of such overwhelming numbers of soldiers should have failed to strike the note of war, emphasized that of lavishness, of the casting off of mundane troubles for which the French capital has so long been known. [9]
- Oddly enough my friendship with Farrar was an indirect result of the incident I have just related. [9]
Sentences ending with oddly
- Elbridge is common enough, but this sounded oddly. [6]
Short sentences using oddly
- Something new, something oddly sympathetic. [9]
More example sentences with the word oddly in them
- They oddly return with every change of weather; and are still sometimes accompanied with a little soreness and hoarseness, but I combat them steadily with pitch plasters and bran tea. [14]
- He seemed older when he looked at Chiltern again, and in his face commiseration and indignation were oddly intermingled. [9]
- All the rest were ciphers; all had lost, momentarily, their feelings of partisanship and were conscious only of these two intense, radiating, opposing centres of force; and no man, oddly enough, could say which was the stronger. [9]
- It strikes me very oddly that good and wise men at Cambridge and Boston should think of raising me into an object of criticism. [6]
- I seemed oddly to be relapsing into the states of questioning that had characterized my earlier years. [9]
- She halted on the pavement, her eyes raised, heedless of passers-by, feeling within her a throb of the longing that could be so oddly and unexpectedly aroused. [9]
- It isn't exactly the old Puritan fatalism, or even the Greek, it's oddly modern, too, almost agnostic, I should say,--a calm acceptance of the hazards of life, of nature, of sun and rain and storm alike--very different from the cheap optimism one finds everywhere now. [9]
- He had not the astuteness to be a rogue; oddly he had the sense to know that he could fool us no longer. [9]
- She was aware that he had got to his feet, and was standing beside her, speaking with an oddly penetrating tenderness. [9]
- The chief horror that haunted him was not failure,--for oddly enough he never seriously distrusted his power, it was disaster. [9]
- Also an Essay, spoken at the great final exhibition, held in the large hall up-stairs, which hangs oddly enough from the roof, suspended by iron rods. [6]
- And here, too, shovelling the crushed rock, were East Indians oddly clad in European garb, careless of the cold. [9]
- Not only did she seem indifferent to her father's feeling--which incidentally added fuel to it--but her splendid disregard of him, as a clergyman, had made an oddly powerful appeal. [9]
- He has the rare peculiarity of standing by himself; he is peculiarly steep, too, and is also most oddly shaped. [5]
- But even the presence of these, oddly enough, did not rob the landscape of its air of Sunday peace. [9]
- A single band of linen, soiled by the journey, was wound about his throat, and I remember oddly the buttons stuck on his knees and cuffs, and these silk-embroidered in a criss-cross pattern of lighter gray. [9]
- Our Government is oddly inconsistent in this matter of official dress. [5]
- For his decision not to leave Newport had had an opposite effect upon her than that she had anticipated; it had oddly relieved the pressure. [9]
- Mrs. Horn believed in the world and in society and its unwritten constitution devoutly, and she tolerated her niece's benevolent activities as she tolerated her aesthetic sympathies because these things, however oddly, were tolerated--even encouraged--by society; and they gave Margaret a charm. [8]
- And suddenly, oddly, I happened to remember what Krebs had said, that our troubles were not due to individuals, but to a disease that had developed in industrial society. [9]
- The naked parts, however, of certain Quadrumana must be excepted; for such parts, often oddly situated, are brilliantly coloured in some species. [1]
- Other clergymen, not half so fortunate, were apparently satisfied; or else--from his conversation with them--either oddly optimistic or resigned. [9]
- The old Doctor felt very oddly as she looked at him; be did not like the feeling, so he dropped his head and lifted his eyes and looked at her over his spectacles again. [6]
- And the very fact that the conversation rarely took any vital turn oddly contributed to the increasing permanence of the lien. [9]
- It sounds oddly enough now, but it is nevertheless true that at that time the invention was not taken seriously by any one except its inventor. [5]
- But the Capitalist's economy in rags and his liberality to the young doctor are very oddly contrasted with each other. [6]
- He was growing comfortable-looking, if not exactly stout; prematurely paternal, oddly willing to renounce the fiercer joys of life, the joys of acquisition, of conquest, of youth. [9]
- Eitelfritz was strangely attired, so gaily and oddly dressed, that he could not fail to be conspicuous even among his comrades. [10]
- His manner was abrupt, yet oddly enough, not ungracious. [9]
- I recalled oddly a story of a peasant who, yearning for the great life, had stumbled upon an empty palace, its tables set with food in golden dishes. [9]
- Then she laughed a little oddly to herself, and stood picking to pieces the wet leaves of a geranium, looking after the three. [11]
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