Sentence examples for a somewhat eccentric from inspiring English sources

In the given auction South opened with a somewhat eccentric one no-trump.

My side, Pacific CC, a somewhat eccentric bunch, are defying the coming of winter to London.

Photograph: Carlo Ferraro/EPA A somewhat eccentric scholar has just left my room.

Realizing that he must attach himself to one of the political parties, he made a somewhat eccentric interpretation of Toryism, which some features of his radicalism fitted.

He is a somewhat eccentric character – a college dropout firebrand with a history of drug addiction and a penchant for ranting, red wine and cigarettes.

It maybe it will simply take a somewhat eccentric, red-blooded Texas-born millionaire businessman to put a dent't in the escalation, just by saying, "Cut it out, goddam it - it's hurting my business".

This was, at the time, a somewhat-eccentric strategy to fight poverty in America.

Anderson expressed hope for the collection, which she characterized as "a wonderful, somewhat eccentric, irreplaceable archive of mostly 19th century history and geography books, manuscripts, and maps".

A rich and somewhat eccentric lady named Sheila has an ostrich and a cheetah as pets, and she wishes to take them from her hotel to her remote and almost inaccessible farm.

But they are a happy, if somewhat eccentric reminder that in Henley (no relation), a place that grew rich shipping grain, malt, wool and timber down to London and glass, silk and fine wines back up to Oxford, the river still matters.

One has the impression, reading "The Flâneur," of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn't otherwise see.