Sentence examples for oddments from inspiring English sources

Between the oddments and the allegories, the forks and the grand set pieces, this exhibition richly bears that out.

Two new ways to patch the oddments together and distinguish genuine from false information are reported this week.

A wrong response leads one to lose the clue's value and potentially give away the correct response and the cash to another player.Cramming sessions of two to four hours a night for most of the time between the call and the recording revealed the limits of a 44-year-old brain's capacity to retain new titbits and refresh forgotten oddments.

What is vastly more significant, however, than these oddments of technological history is the minute subdivision of productive skills and their transmission from father to son in populations adequate to the demand for iron ore from Noricum, most notably, or for glass and paper from Alexandria.

| In the Renaissance, collectors displayed natural oddments — homunculus-shaped corals, narwhal tusks fobbed off as unicorn horns — in cabinets known as Wunderkammern.

The bond is inevitably looser than the real thing, generally fleeting, and yet there is something telling about the random oddments of criteria that contribute to the choice.

When, some mornings, I return, to retrieve a few final oddments — andirons, picture frames — the space of the house greets me with virginal impudence.

("It's like Christmas in a thieves' kitchen," Samuel cries, surveying a room stacked with vacuum cleaners, goggles, filing cabinets, miners' helmets, boomerangs, knitting machines, miniature Japanese trees, and other oddments).

The director of "Batman," "Edward Scissorhands," and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" — who went to art school in the seventies before going to work as an animator at Disney — exhibits costumes, props and sculptures, and ephemeral oddments, such as a yellow legal pad with notes for "Beetlejuice" (1988) suggesting that the script be streamlined.

Fox's latest book, "News From the World," is one of those attic-sweepings that writers who specialize in long forms periodically undertake: an assortment of literary oddments — stories, essays, introductions, fragments of memoir — written in this case over the course of almost 50 years.

By the time Andrew arrived, the table was cluttered with bottled herbs and dry beans and oddments that I had collected from the bulk bins at the grocery store.