Sentence examples similar to a tiny odd from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a tiny odd" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is slightly unusual or peculiar, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "There was a tiny odd in the way he spoke that made me question his sincerity."
Alternatives: "a slight oddity" or "a minor peculiarity."

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I learned this behind the wheel of the Think City, a tiny, odd-looking commuter vehicle that I drove to the train station for two weeks.

Joan's "house" — a tiny, odd-looking edifice with yellow-brown stains, an unkempt garden and a statue of Joan that's missing a left hand and a right arm — was built sometime after her death.

"I think we just saw a pterodactyl," said Argos calmly, feeling a tiny but odd grip inside his chest as though someone had nipped a paper clip on to a vague and minor part of his interior works.

Maybe something sporty, but not in a bodycon way, or something a tiny bit odd: this skirt, with its trompe l'oeil jumper-round-the-waist detail, is suitably off-the-wall.

Garbarek – mainly playing his tiny, odd-looking curved soprano sax, but occasionally switching to tenor – mainly sticks to simple, nursery rhyme-style melodies.

He makes a tiny income from odd jobs like caring for pets.

Still, has hallowed Augusta National become refuge and playground for a tiny minority of odd lefties, a golf species once so disparaged that instructors routinely forced them to switch sides and play right-handed?

There is also a women's Tundra sweater made of thick white wool with a tiny hood and odd black-and-yellow trim at the cuffs, and a face mask made of deer skin that "completely covers the face, including nose, chin, ears and throat".

Towards the end he repeats himself a tiny bit, and the odd chapter feels padded – a couple of pages of reasonably well-known literary pseudonyms here; a couple of pages of name-changing fugitives from justice there.

But I do find it just a tiny bit depressing that, 20-odd years after it became the symbol of a very bossy, cost-cutting prime minister, who would not, I think, have recognised the necessity of any kind of design, the handbag appears to have been selected as a symbol of the pre-eminence that Britain would like to have in the world.

A lot of the motivation for producers to bottle and sell prestige editions is not for the immediate profit from those 720-odd bottles (a tiny volume that will represent less than the rounding error in the accounts) but because it validates the brand and enhances its image.

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