Sentence examples for odd pursuits from inspiring English sources

Rees drifted around the globe to more than 30 countries spending his days in such odd pursuits as working as a tailor in Afghanistan, a cook in India and a carpenter in Switzerland.

"It's an odd pursuit," he says vaguely, "this, er, movie star business.

A young journalist came across some traffic policemen engaged in the odd pursuit of drying out banknotes at the roadside.

We also know that he is a leader of a right-wing faction devoted to the odd pursuit of redefining rape.

Though it may seem to be an odd pursuit, especially for no pay, Ms. Pruszko, who is a project manager for a Web development company, took to the idea.

"It's an odd pursuit for a nun to spend so much of her time seeking to discredit Christians who are trying to protect other Christians who are being persecuted by the occupation".

Memoli stresses that intentionally infecting people is an odd pursuit for a doctor.

It attempts to balance the portrayal of what admittedly sounds like kind of an odd pursuit with the seriousness of the group's efforts.

But I spent them nonetheless, all 20-odd, in pursuit of the great rock'n'roll delusion.

No one is that bothered in international T20 by the odd delay in pursuit of justice.

Perhaps, but Mount makes some odd omissions in his pursuit of simplicity.