Sentence examples for an odd name from inspiring English sources

ESPRESSO might seem an odd name for a bookmaking machine.

Is an odd name a help or a hindrance?

" 'I want to meet a guy with an odd name and an accent.

It's an odd name (whatever else the US Postal Service is, it isn't qwik) and a big mistake.

He has an odd name and an exotic background, and 12% of Americans believe that he is a Muslim.

Flausa.com -- an odd name that stands for Florida USA -- offers 29 packages for the Tampa area alone.

The grander project for a trade body failed, leaving the GATT as a provisional quasi-institution with a decidedly odd name.

Be sure to make it a very odd name.

By contrast, South Korea's Samsung Electronics is highly integrated, even making its own chips and liquid-crystal displays.In the electronics business, there are two sorts of contract manufacturer building products to be sold under the brand name of an "original-equipment manufacturer" (OEM), the industry's odd name for a company that outsources its production.

Somewhere in all that revenge-epic gobbledygook no doubt lies the hidden meaning of the game's odd name, a word play on Excalibur, the sword of Arthurian myth.

However, recently a young man called Ren – odd name I know, but that's a whole different issue – spoke up in favour of "the rock music".