Example sentences for: peculiar

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

  • The old New Yorker was whimsical, often fatally so: Writers were expected to indulge their own peculiar interest and damn public opinion.

  • But then Miss Manners' "peculiar profession" depends on "sensitive but indignant souls ...

  • It is also a very peculiar redemption story: how three decades of raging schizophrenia, capped by an unexpected Nobel Prize, can transmute a cruel shit into a frail but decent human being.

  • But a peculiar little side drama on Capitol Hill suggests that this conclusion is not as certain as it seems.

  • One gets a glimpse of Joe and Vicky's peculiar role in the fiasco that occurred in late January, when the Dallas Morning News reported, then retracted, then semi-reasserted that a Secret Service witness to a Clinton-Lewinsky encounter was prepared to testify.


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