Sentence examples for odd strain from inspiring English sources

The appointment of Giles may produce the odd strain but it is worth trying.

The score has, where appropriate, brassiness, bite, joie de vivre, sheer cheek, and even the odd strain of sadness.

Preston's account, compiled from the many letters, diaries, and memoirs by European survivors of the siege, captures an odd strain of mordant humor -- the awakening of a distinctively 20th-century sense of the absurd -- as 18 Western nationalities crowd into ever-contracting quarters, surviving on horse, pony or mule and rice, washed down with the French Legation's ample stocks of Champagne.

The lineages also comprised an odd strain, A//Chicken/Heilongjiang/35/00, isolated in China in 2000 with HA 99.9% homogenous to A/Ty/Wisconsin/1/1966.

"People like the odd strains.

(Her odd, straining enunciation returned with her).

Mr. Bhasker mixed in odd strains of exotic instruments on some tracks, like Irish drums and whistles on the lilting "Carry On".

Romney is not entirely alone: one heard the same odd strains in Obama's speech to the Urban League the same day, in which he gingerly addressed gun control.

Because whatever odd mutant strain of brain parasite they're putting in the food in the MotoCFTRIA has essentially melted the frontal lobes of Motorola's executive team and ensuring they'll drive this truck into the river by Christmas 2009.

However, in vivo imaging in ODD-luciferase strain has shown significant generalised background luminescence of the body [ 25], as hypoxia is intrinsic in some tissues under normal conditions, which can hamper exact localising of early overgrowth of mammary tissue via in vivo imaging.

In other cases, meiotic induction of strains with odd ploidy or diploid strains incapable of nuclear fusion has been performed to isolate haploid cells with one or more additional chromosomes [ 10, 11].