Example sentences for: eccentricity

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

  • Her portrait by John Singer Sargent (in the Gothic Room) captures her individuality and her eccentricity lives on in her will, which stipulates that all of the 2,000 pieces on display in the house must be left exactly where they are.

  • Perhaps his most engaging eccentricity was the way he reared his dog: he apparently brought it up to think of itself as a cat, to the point where it even used its paws to wash its face.

  • Oscar Wilde, the high priest of this movement whose adherents cultivated eccentricity in dress and affectation in speech and manner, came to America in 1882 on a lecture tour and presented in the flesh the image of an aesthete.

  • Both size and eccentricity acted as a differentiator, as well as encapsulation by or nearness to sinusoids (clear space).

  • The richness of language, image, and imagination all contrast with her austerities and stringencies: Nothing could be further from the beloved middlebrow notion of Dickinson as a charmingly dotty, fey spinster or wistful girl, all eccentricity and repression.


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