Sentence examples for found peculiar from inspiring English sources

Victorians found peculiar satisfaction in empire and war, nature, reason and nation.

Using the Oxford English Corpus, encompassing about two billion words of 21st-century English, Hargraves found peculiar patterns in simple words like the verb "brush".

The reporter even used the British embassy as a base, filed a 2,000-word 2,000-word on Burgess, and spoke to the amemorandum Sir Patrick Reilly, "as a friend", an arrangement that neither side fonnd peculiar.

(Passages in Wilson's diary suggest an odd general obliviousness to Hitler's "anti-Jewish activities," which found peculiar sympathy among some of Wilson's acquaintances and "seemed to encourage latent anti-Semitism, give people courage to be impolite").

He'd aways found peculiar joy in putting together IKEA furniture, so he hired himself out as an assembly wiz: easy labor that paid the bills while he got better.

What I found peculiar was that language is the primary means by which people interact and influence one another.

I keep twisting the stitches in a manner she finds peculiar.

He finds peculiar objects, including a pair of wooden cutouts that he identifies as sock-drying implements, pictured against a background of toile, a favorite textile.

What I find peculiar is the Obama administration's strange silence on this pivotal issue.

I wanted to find peculiar things from my childhood to put into tailoring".

More than anything, Ricky was and is, well, interesting and interested in things that most athletes find peculiar.