Example sentences for: eccentric

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

  • Several British papers led with pictures of the eccentric young British violinist Nigel Kennedy performing a "concert for peace" at the Sava Concert Hall in Belgrade Monday.

  • We are asked to believe not only that President Clinton (shanghaied by the filmmakers into a notorious cameo) could inspire the nation to spend trillions of dollars on this machine without even a raised eyebrow from George Will, but also that a cross-eyed, homicidal doomsday prophet would be hired to put the finishing touches on it; and that after he sabotages the whole project in the name of Jesus, it would be rebuilt at a secret location on the island of Hokkaido by a zillionaire eccentric who floats around in orbit aboard his own custom-made Mir.

  • This "satisfyingly insiderish" (Alexandra Jacobs, Entertainment Weekly ) history of life in the Hamptons is being compared to John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil . Some critics relish the combination of eccentric real-life characters and celebrity dirty laundry.

  • As played by Jeremy Brett, Holmes was so eccentric, so mannered, that all attention was drawn to him, rather than to the story--and after you had seen him several times, he elicited giggles rather than puzzlement.

  • It concluded, "This eccentric knight is a model billionaire."


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