Sentence examples for odd apple from inspiring English sources

Here chickens still scratch in front yards, and family cows graze on grassy patches near the odd apple orchard.

By Luke Holland, writer The odd apple – as opposed to a Pringle and a fag – will prevent your immune system moving back home to your parents'.

Not sure how we missed this but last week iLounge found an odd Apple device — something between a touch and an eBook reader — on the private iTunes store for EF Education Tours.

It's the odd rotten apple in the barrel and then you say: 'OK, I've got to go and find the rotten apple in the barrel' … I'm now coming in to work very closely with HR, the warehouse and the [employment] agencies".

Doesn't every big barrel harbour the odd rotten apple?

Again, I can't speak for all juries everywhere, at every time – doubtless you get the odd bad apple.

Taking on a trainee is always a bit of a gamble: the majority are excellent but the odd bad apple falls through the net.

Mike Ashley, the company's founder and majority owner, admitted in a rare TV interview that he had taken his eye off the ball but claimed the problems at the company's warehouse were caused by "the odd rotten apple".

Ashley said he had not known about the poor treatment of employees but claimed there was little wrong at Sports Direct, telling BBC Breakfast on Tuesday that problems at the company's warehouse were caused by "the odd rotten apple".

The traditional "odd bad apple" claim cannot survive a list that, counting only the most egregious failings of recent times, includes abuse at Hillsborough and Orgreave, the shooting of Jean Paul de Menezes and the death of Ian Tomlinson.

Better to test sparingly, and expose from time to time what is apparently the odd bad apple, rather than do the job thoroughly and find the whole barrel is spoiled and your sport has suddenly vanished in a hailstorm of disqualifications.This attitude, however, would result in precisely the outcome testing is supposed to obviate.