Sentence examples for on the oddity from inspiring English sources

The only person to comment on the oddity of the situation was one of the security guards posted by the bathrooms, who cheered me on.

We remarked on the oddity of the restaurant's playing what seemed to be a commercial for itself.

The other guests — Frederick Anderson, Mr. Hannant's chief executive, and Alexandra Lebenthal and Muffie Potter Aston, also longtime clients — commented on the oddity of it.

Towards the end of his life, Merton remarked on the oddity of living long enough to contribute to the festschriften of so many former students.

Last week, she posted regularly, including a few funny quips on the oddity that involves Manti Te'o, the Notre Dame football star whose apparently deceased girlfriend, well, never existed.

He was older than Mr. Springsteen and most of his future band mates, and he often commented on the oddity -- even the liability -- of being a racially integrated group in those days.

The Halloween competition, now in its third year, is one of the oddities on Wall Street.

Of course, he did write straightforward, well-made plays, but many more were predicated on an awareness of the oddity of things when viewed from another angle.

Most of the oddities on the bidding block are eye-catching on their own, but each of the items comes with a background story that brings a bit more allure to the collection of misfit antiques.

One of the oddities on such occasions is that much of the time is consumed in a hopeless cause: the Vugraph audience can often see that the problem occupying a player has no solution.

As George Carlin noted, in one of his many famous rifts on the oddities of word usage, you can say "prick your finger" in polite company but not "finger your prick".