ODDLY in a Sentence

Learn ODDLY from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For ODDLY, below is one of 230 sentences:
Her ears strained for sounds from upstairs, but the house was oddly still, so still that even the sound of her breathing seemed loud.

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 Meanings and Examples of ODDLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
oddly
 ad.  curiously; bizarrely; unusually
Classic Sentence: (197 in 14 pages)
1  But for all her plainness of feature and smallness of stature, there was a sedate dignity about her movements that was oddly touching and far older than her seventeen years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  His voice was oddly pleasant to the ear, the well-modulated voice of a gentleman, resonant and overlaid with the flat slow drawl of the Charlestonian.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  It was an oddly familiar noise, blurred and indistinct though it was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  They were oddly still crowds, crowds that quietly grew larger and larger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  Her ears strained for sounds from upstairs, but the house was oddly still, so still that even the sound of her breathing seemed loud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  Scarlett always permitted Wade to sit up late when Rhett called because the shy child was fond of him, and Rhett oddly enough seemed to be fond of Wade.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  The two of them, with their Yankee stepmother, their four little half-sisters, and Hilton, the Yankee overseer, remained in the silent, oddly echoing house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  Carreen's eyes were shining oddly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  He looked at her oddly, still inscrutable and as she hurried on she could not tell if he were amused or repelled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  There was an air of dignity and pride about her now that, oddly enough, became her better than the determined girlish sweetness of her days at Twelve Oaks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  But, oddly enough, the fact that he had saved the lives of some of Atlanta's most prominent men was what aroused the hottest hate of Atlanta's ladies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
12  Rhett looked at her over the black head of the child and smiled oddly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
13  "Quite the little gentleman, Ashley," said Rhett and his eyes began to gleam oddly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
14  She always looks at me so oddly when I speak of Ashley, thought Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  But, oddly enough, the ladies were not offended.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  I find it odd that she takes so long to do that job.
17  Guess which number of the following sequence is the odd one out.
18  She made a cushion out of odd bits of material.
19  I had a very odd dream about you last night.
20  It seemed rather an odd manner of deciding things.
21  The odd thing was that he didn't recognize me.
22  I had an odd sense of deja vu just as you said that.
23  Many of these street people seemed to support themselves by panhandling and doing odd jobs.
24  The system has some odd little quirks.
25  The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English.
26  It is odd that his name is never mentioned.
27  I slept in queer places, and ate odd things, and met strange faces.
28  Though the young man tried to understand Father William's singular behavior, he still found it odd that the old man incessantly stood on his head.
29  You also have to imagine that in an odd mongrel accent of Sicilian born and raised, but learned English in a Scottish slum.
30  If you need car parts that the dealers no longer stock, try to scavenge for odd bits and pieces at the auto wreckers' yards.