Sentence examples for of some peculiar from inspiring English sources

The reason is the discovery, in 2004, of some peculiar seashells of that age in Blombos, a seaside cave in South Africa.The shells are peculiar because they seem to have been fashioned into beads.

America is the world's great island nation: we constantly register our puzzlement that the world does not share our laws and values by insisting that they mostly do, or will soon, or only don't because of some peculiar oddity, intrinsic to their being, well, foreign.

Despite his popularity as a performer, he had inhibitions about his height (5ft 2in) and about relationships with women; he didn't lose his virginity until he was 22. His propensity to speak about his sexual experiences prompted Jonathan Miller to describe him as "libidinous, childlike, goatlike - the embodiment of some peculiar mythical satyr".

The visionary side of this quest for the supernatural also involves a mysterious Polish visitor who offers Korben the use of some peculiar equipment — a helmet of glass and metal that will capture Kate's ethereal emanations — that goes into the producer's cinematic experiments, too, and shifts them, and also Zlotowski's film, into the realm of hectic science fiction.

Sometimes multiple apps adopt similar ideas and designs as part of some peculiar cultural zeitgeist.

Accordingly, because the patient was very refractory, and also because of some peculiar clinical findings, we speculate on the pathophysiology of the disease.

A host of factors—some peculiar to mountains in general and some specific to Alaska's high latitude make it difficult to classify Alaska's mountains into definite climatic types.

This phosphoresence was not observed in all specimens brought in for examination, and seemed to depend on some peculiar condition of the air, having been noticed only in specimens gathered in damp weather or just before a storm.

Despite all of this, for some peculiar reason, the government has not taken into account the views of the scheme's stakeholders: the children who are recipients of this deadly state-run charity.

And a lack of time always leads to an opening of the heart, for some peculiar reason.

She and Littlewood had provided a scientific explanation for some peculiar features of the behaviour of radio waves, but they did not in the end supply the answer in time.