Sentence examples for odd variety from inspiring English sources

Six other executive producers are already credited, though, which may help explain both the blandness of the pilot and the odd variety of shows it echoes.

Inspired by the odd variety of jelly beans Harry and his schoolmates eat, the list of flavors will include toasted marshmallow, sardine, horseradish and grass.

For nearly 50 years, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice has made do with secondhand space, scattered through an odd variety of buildings, with nothing like a campus to unite its 15,000 students.

To prevent this appalling utopian civilization, Sam and Max must complete an odd variety of tasks, including helping a chicken magician pull a recalcitrant rat from his top hat and making the decapitated head of the Lincoln Memorial vomit.

David Shook, the poet who translated that manifesto into English, noted the odd variety of writers to whom the young Bolaño made reference in his work: from the French surrealist poet Andre Breton, to assorted Russian science fiction writers.

When pressed to single out one of the 150 or so odd varieties of squash that she has grown on her farm in Rhinebeck for its superior culinary value, she said: "Buttercup is what I call American royalty.

Commercial growers usually don't bother with odd varieties, but Seaview Packing, which owns or manages 3,000 acres of citrus, grapes and dates in the Coachella Valley southeast of Palm Springs, Calif., farms 50 acres of Palestine sweet limes, two acres of limequats (a hybrid of true lime and kumquat) and 500 young trees of kaffir lime, C. hystrix, another favorite of smugglers.

Fruit-flavored vodkas have been on the market for years, but there's a whole world of odd varieties available for every conceivable palate.

The 40-odd varieties of dumplings, served in huge portions of 15, feature bizarre marriages of land and sea, including diced pork with sea urchin (13.99 dollars).

Today, instead of the dozen-odd varieties of Asian vegetables his father started with, Fred Lee grows nearly 250 varieties of plants, including 35 different potted herbs, 40 varieties of tomatoes, 6 kinds of eggplant and unusual items like yellow carrots and red scallions.

Feeling a little squeamish, I gave my beaker to my boyfriend and concentrated on the tempting platter of cheese, tender smoked lamb and assortment of home-smoked fish – from a delicate trout to an odd, earthy variety that we later discovered had been smoked in cow dung.