Sentence examples for odd bird from inspiring English sources

This Cal was an odd bird.

The Bad Plus is an odd bird.

Yvón was an odd, odd bird.

Arthur is undoubtedly an odd bird.

The Bad Plus loved him, too: one odd bird recognizes another.

In the context of cable comedy, "Kimmy Schmidt" is a very odd bird.

Odd birds visit the shore and the bluefish start running.

These odd birds are good for eggs but too puny to make a meal.

Instead of a standard-issue duck bill, these odd birds sport flattened mandibles that resemble, well, shovels.

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Sheathbills are odd birds, which have been described as "a genus with the general appearance, gait, and flight of a pigeon, with the beak and voice of a crow; with the habits of a wader, yet dreading the water, and with pugnacity and familiarity with man of a rasorial [gallinaceous] bird" (Kidder and Coues 1876).