Sentence examples for odd custom from inspiring English sources

Unalaska is so far away and its weather so fickle, few teams want to go there, leading to another odd custom of school sports life in the state: Unalaska pays other high schools to come play against its students.

His characters are neither costumed moderns, just like us only with better furniture, nor quaint curiosities whose odd customs we observe with smug condescension.

I think mostly they say it because they think the English like to hear it, and it's polite to compliment the odd customs of foreigners in their own homes.

Rolf Peter Kelamiss) is an immigrant, who often participates in odd customs and eats strange food.

A toast then, to all national leaders of the world, as is Odd Fellows custom.

But it is getting harder to see same-sex nuptials as an odd new custom confined to coastal liberal bastions.

They're perennially surprised by how different other places are, how odd the customs and mores of the people of, say, Ghana and Nigeria.

DorianHawkmoon suggests Maria's or Tiny's – Maria's odd margarita customs aside – for authentic Mexican food, as well as Cafe Pasqual's and Harry's Roadhouse, to round out his list of Santa Fe's top possessive-proper-noun restaurants.

To investigate the effect of the stopped escalator's step-height itself on behavioral properties and odd sensation, custom-made wooden stairs with an approach that duplicates the physical dimensions of a stopped escalator (i.e. shorter first step) were prepared (the wooden stairs have four steps and no hand rail).

Mr. Allen later added that he has been kept afloat by odd jobs, doing some custom carpentry and apartment renovation for friends of friends.

(Some folk customs are odd).