Sentence examples for it is certainly odd from inspiring English sources

It is certainly odd that the Pickering-Mullen review team did not interview Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her deputies, but Mrs. Clinton and several other senior State Department officials have testified before Congress.

"It's certainly odd that she died quite so young.

JEFFREY TOOBIN: I don't know if it's dangerous, but it's certainly odd.

It's certainly odd, but not in the jaunty, matter-of-fact way of full-blown magic realism.

QUESTION FROM DOUG: The 18 game season looms as a terrifically terrible idea, no? BEN MCGRATH: It's certainly odd timing to be pushing for it.

It's certainly odd: nowhere else in traditional ballet does the ballerina hold her partner's knee while extending her leg in the opposite direction.

"It was certainly odd for us to walk down the hallways at NBC and see all those big posters of their old shows," says Mr. Burnett.

This is certainly odd, but not clearly impossible: it merely requires an impairment which varies with the context, of which there are multiple other examples from neurology.

This is certainly odd, yet there is meaning in its toils - a cameo of a teenage girl who is always keen to show what she has just learned, its syntactic awkwardness a consequence of the character's seriousness.

Yet outbursts of rage can also be stirred by political grandstanding and mischievous politicians preying on an ill-informed and aggrieved populace.It is certainly odd, for example, that the latest film suddenly began attracting attention in the run-up to September 11th, an anniversary almost as politically charged in the Muslim world as it is in the West.

Bean's touch is unsteady, and "Noise" is certainly odd, but the movie is alive with the creative madness of New York.