Sentence examples for odd glass from inspiring English sources

Constance is partial to the odd glass of wine".

She adds with a smile: "I'll have the odd glass of mulled wine at Christmas".

I still allow myself treats like chocolate and the odd glass of wine.

Having foresworn alcohol since 1986, he admits he has been experimenting with the odd glass since last year's French holiday.

If these ex-drunks can enjoy the odd glass of wine now, then they can never have been alcoholics … because alcoholism is an irreversible disease.

As port is a fortified wine of up to 20% alcohol, overindulgence is lethal, but the odd glass is most enjoyable with a rich blue cheese.

Odd glasses used, some with printed mottoes and poetry.

He was "wearing these odd glasses," she said, and when she tried them on, "I was floored".

Another major difference, he noted, was that Mr. Karadzic was living openly, wearing a disguise of facial hair and odd glasses, with valid documents under his assumed name.

Yet none of KamLAND's 1,900 or so photomultiplier tubes, nor Super-Kamiokande's 11,000-odd glass bulbs, each 50cm in diameter, seems to have cracked.The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), too, has had a lucky escape.

Textbooks used to be full of examples like these (English-language lessons and English language lessons; an odd-looking glass and an odd looking glass) but except in places like The New Yorker, which punctiliously hyphenates all such phrases, ambiguous or not, this useful, elegant hyphen has become a nicety, resorted to only in cases of extreme confusion and sometimes not even then.