Sentence examples for odd material from inspiring English sources

While at Los Alamos, he said, he noticed a cube of an odd material on a laboratory windowsill.

These included wax and an odd material known as bog-butter, a fatty substance found in peat bogs which is associated with buried human remains.

Can't we just say, 'No, I'm watching some crap?'" And for a sort of rhetorical break, he tries to widen his reading to include odd material from other disciplines.

It's a bit of an odd material to work with at first, and it slides differently than yarn.

Janine Antoni's forte is using odd materials and odd ways of applying materials.

Firstly, they are odd materials that run contrary to school science lessons on the three states of matter.

These odd materials may sound like something out of the Jetsons' wardrobe, but they could have an influence on how fashion is manufactured.

There is a long tradition of Beetle shapes composed of odd materials, among them Beetles made of wood and Beetles fashioned from New Orleans-style wrought iron.

As his library of odd materials grew, he hoped the interaction of technology, art and commerce would spark new design ideas.

MEGAN MARRIN, an artist and designer who makes ceramic jewelry under the name M. Graves (the centerpieces being antique doll parts), has worked her odd materials into a new collection of cameo necklaces.

The seven artists range in age, but all pursue what might be called (to paraphrase Clement Greenberg) "homeless painterliness," a use of odd materials and unorthodox methods whereby delicate gestures and colors are insinuated within but also around or at some distance from conventional painting.