Example sentences for: oddly

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

  • (Oddly, both the Times and the Globe make only glancing mention of a separate instance in which McCain complained to the FCC that it was applying too strict a standard of review to a deal involving Ameritech, whose chief was raising money for McCain.

  • It's a courtroom so secure and austere it wouldn't look out of place in Mission: Impossible . Located on the sixth floor of the Justice Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., its double doors swing shut and seal themselves to the wall when a button nearby is depressed; an oddly textured ceiling looms overhead.

  • That McCain got by, barely, is typical of his oddly charmed life.

  • These charges are expounded at much greater length in the NYT and WP . Oddly, USAT buries until the third-from-the-bottom paragraph the news that a source says Starr concludes Clinton committed eleven offenses that could warrant impeachment, a detail the WP rightly puts in its lead's first sentence.

  • The Times itself is oddly silent about some relevant context though, never noting that the sort of speculative psychological explanation indulged in here by the Air Force is strikingly similar to that wielded by the Navy when, in its initial official report on the disastrous gunnery explosion aboard the Iowa , it posited a crewmember's gay-tinged suicide.


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