Sentence examples for instance of a peculiar from inspiring English sources

Alice, ever antisocial, refuses to become another number, a mere instance of a peculiar species rather than a world unto herself.

In short, who dares win will die but his genes are more likely to live on in the next generation.Dr Foellmer and Dr Fairbairn cite a peculiar instance of a male spider that died after mistakenly inserting his second pedipalp into the carcass of a mealworm.

Some might even have concluded that the unknown woman's dour expression and cheap-looking pearls were yet another instance of Deakin's peculiar eye for the sadness of urban life.

But this war is of a peculiar nature.

"It's kind of a peculiar situation," Jacobs said.

A bit of a peculiar approach, sure, but a little personal accountability couldn't hurt.

Anjalina Sen is a diplomat of a peculiar kind.

The conundrum of umpiring is neatly posed by the peculiar rule of the knee-to-shoulder strike zone, which Mr. Weber calls the sole instance of a playing area that is demarcated only in the minds of officials.

For instance, the Bel/Pao class of retrotransposons exhibits a peculiar distribution because they are absent from mammals but present in nearly all other groups of metazoans, from platyhelminthes to fishes (Copeland et al. 2005).

While every instance of mass atrocities has peculiar dynamics that explain inaction, these are not justifications.

That was the year, for instance, that the R&A once and for all agreed to get rid of the stymie, a peculiar situation applicable only in match play.