Example sentences for: eccentric

How can you use “eccentric” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Many consider her adaptation of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel--about a romance between two eccentric gamblers, played by Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett--to be disjointed.

  • In 1979, the eccentric funk pioneer George Clinton said of Sun Ra: "This boy was definitely out to lunch--the same place I eat at."

  • An article lionizes Jack Maple, the eccentric cop who devised New York City's crime-tracking program.

  • As the eccentric master villain who controls the weather, even Sean Connery is flat-out terrible, acting high on the hog.

  • The last of the Attalid kings, Attalus III, is remembered as something of an eccentric — one of his hobbies was devising new poisons and testing their efficacy on his reluctant slaves.


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