Sentence examples for odd constructions from inspiring English sources

Ryan is warming up, though, and giving it a bit more zing, although with some odd constructions along the way: It began with a housing crisis they didn't cause.

An alto saxophonist with a clear but burly tone and a proprietary set of strategies for improvisation — full of gulps and leaps, odd constructions and angular attack — Mr. Berne can be identified just as easily by his compositional style, which somehow skews both discursive and direct.

The sobriquet lent itself to occasional odd constructions, like "my aunt Sister," as well as to misunderstandings: when Jacqueline Kennedy tapped Mrs. Parish to spiff up the living quarters on Pennsylvania Avenue, Ms. Bartlett said, one newspaper reported that a nun was redecorating the White House.

He does odd construction jobs to scrape by.

Complicating matters is that a private religious school in France is an odd construction.

He returns to Cape Vincent and works odd construction jobs during his days off.

"Nothing but I do parallel the night" is an odd construction.

As Tim Cushing pointed out, Mr. Clapper seemed to be taking advantage of on an odd construction (you don't "record" metadata) to deny something that was basically true.

As I left the show, confounded by the play's odd construction, I was reminded of one of its better aperçus: "Men don't have second thoughts.

Unable to compete with ethnic Han Chinese migrant workers or educated Tibetans who speak Mandarin, many former herders survive off government subsidies and the odd construction job.

Mr. Fish, who worked odd construction jobs, had a dispute with a security guard, and they transferred to a shelter in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where they lived for a year.