The phrase "a peculiar use" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an unusual or distinctive way in which something is utilized.
Example: "The author employed a peculiar use of language that captivated the readers."
Alternatives: "an unusual application" or "a strange usage."
In an especially peculiar use of his wealth, Peterson has also paid consultants to come up with the game of "budgetball".
Although these somewhat unconventional connotations of Hegel's concepts of "concept" and "real" (which have a certain basis in a peculiar German use of these terms) might be confusing, they are—at least in his eyes by no means without descriptive value.
The peculiar use of "Mrs. Munger's Class," a hard-to-describe trifle that runs during breaks between ABC's Saturday morning cartoons, was inane.
John Mason '66 Says: 2011-09-27 09:30:02 The sad events of September 11 have been used to underwrite the war in Iraq, with its fiction of WMD's; the erosion of civil liberty, under the peculiar use of "homeland" to refer to our country; and the use of torture by Americans, with expressions of contempt for the Geneva Convention.
That work revealed that the best indicator of the disordered mind was the schizophrenic's odd and peculiar use of language". Until she was hospitalized five months ago, Singer continued fielding dozens of calls a day from fellow scholars, psychiatrists and cult victims and their relatives seeking her advice.
Read about Asian English, or Indian English, note peculiar use of English words.
Also tells various uses of oranges & anecdotes of peculiar uses and customs connected with oranges.
"Shy" is a peculiar adjective to use to describe blackmail, which was, as Selina Hastings makes clear in her biography, "The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham," Robin's intention.
That's a peculiar qualifier to use for a forest, especially after having just jumped across a muddy stream bank, admired a profusion of ferns, and listened to the calls of warblers.
28 Other possible uses of these drugs in the elderly include psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and psychosis related to Parkinson's disease – each drug shows a peculiar profile of use in elderly people.
