ECCENTRICITY in a Sentence

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The eccentric professor who engages in markedly outlandish behavior is a stock figure in novels with an academic setting.

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 Meanings and Examples of ECCENTRICITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
eccentricity
 n.  oddity; departure from that which is stated, regular, or usual; deviation from center
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  After all, if these people had strange fads and expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were at least ready to pay for their eccentricity.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
2  There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
3  Besides, the eccentricity of the proceeding was piquant: I felt interested to see how he would go on.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  I loved to fall into the common rut, and had a whole-hearted terror of any kind of eccentricity in myself.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
5  Yet his zeal for certain studies was remarkable, and within eccentric limits his knowledge was so extraordinarily ample and minute that his observations have fairly astounded me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
6  These were very remarkable, but as eccentric as all his other accomplishments.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
7  Mr. Gradgrind was for ever working, in print and out of print, at this eccentric sum, and he never could make out how it yielded this unaccountable product.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
8  Mr. Browlow was no less surprised, although his astonishment was not expressed in the same eccentric manner.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  Before his removal, he had managed to contract a strong friendship for Mr. Grimwig, which that eccentric gentleman cordially reciprocated.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
10  Indeed, from the direction of the Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
11  Sir Charles was a widower, and a man who may be said to have been in some ways of an eccentric habit of mind.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
12  He has had the reputation of being a man of eccentric habits, secretive and retiring.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
13  I would only observe that there is a certain method in the gentleman's eccentric proceedings.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
14  It was certainly rather eccentric behaviour.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
15  My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  In the right hands, there's nobility in unfettered eccentricity.
2  Some of his friends tried to account for his rudeness to strangers as the eccentricity of genius.
3  As a teacher, she had a reputation for eccentricity.
4  People came up with some eccentric ideas for dealing with the emergency: someone even suggested tieing a knot in the comet's tail!.
5  The eccentric professor who engages in markedly outlandish behavior is a stock figure in novels with an academic setting.
6  Gertrude Stein ran off to Paris to live an eccentric, bohemian life with her writer friends.
7  He is an eccentric character who likes wearing a beret and dark glasses.
8  She gives the impression of being rather conventional, but under the surface she is wildly eccentric.