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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an odd sight" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something unusual or unexpected that catches your attention visually.
Example: "As I walked through the park, I came across an odd sight: a man in a tuxedo walking a llama on a leash."
Alternatives: "a strange view" or "a peculiar scene".
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It is an odd sight.
He encountered an odd sight.
It was an odd sight.
The futuristic structure was an odd sight on their heavily wooded lakeside plot.
It was an odd sight, and I wanted to ask someone — anyone — about it.
Marcus du Sautoy is an odd sight even by the standards set by other Oxford dons.
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Pharmacy owner Gabriel Llano says he only gets about 20% of the purchase price from each packet he sells, although there's a higher profit margin on related products like snacks and smoking papers, which are a slightly odd sight in a pharmacy.
To a rugby eye, it's a slightly odd sight.
An indication that Campion is playing things differently, however, is that events are not kicked off by the discovery of a gruesomely eviscerated cadaver; here we are confronted by the odd sight of a young girl wading into a lake, and standing immobile in chest high water.
It's a new, if not odd, sight inside some public pools in the District — people kicking submerged punching bags and jumping up and down on floating boards.
Each received a gold medal - the only one such dual award in these games - and the audience was treated to the odd sight of a Russian & a Czechoslovak standing close together on the first-place pedestal while their flags were carefully run up to the same level and both anthems were rendered, the Czechoslovak one first, following alphabetical order.
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