Sentence examples for mere oddity from inspiring English sources
For the Zuckermans, the Hall of Fame is no mere oddity; it is a tribute to national history that we would be foolish to ignore.
As electronic communications become part of everyday life around the world, the question is whether Japan and its thumb tribes are a harbinger of what lies in store for publishing elsewhere, or whether this island nation, always proud of its uniqueness, is a mere oddity.
Danielle goes from being presented as a troubled child to a mere oddity, something to be gawked at and laughed at.
Leeuwenhoek's "animalcules," as he called them, thus remained mere oddities of nature to the scientists of his day, and enthusiasm for the study of microbes grew slowly.
The fetus has been demoted to a mere historical oddity.
For smokers are more than mere geological oddities.
"Gangnam Style," at that point, had become such an irritating cultural oddity that Psy himself was mere days from declaring that he was sick to death of his own creation.
Even more incredulous to an entire generation of 30-somethings like myself was the oddity of going to the supermarket only to find that prices, with a mere 10% inflation, had not changed in months!
After a mere eight pages of "The Crab with the Golden Claws," we find Tintin adding up the oddities that have arisen so far: "A tin + a drowned man + five counterfeit coins + Karaboudjan + a Japanese + a letter + a kidnapping = a real Chinese puzzle".
One amusing oddity emerges.
