Sentence examples for peculiar call from inspiring English sources

Interestingly, another estate agent says that he recently got a "peculiar" call from a Russian client eager to sell two large properties immediately, which might possibly be connected to the crisis.The number of properties registered to Russians understates the true total by failing to capture offshore structures fronted by nominees, of which Russians are particularly fond.

Just before the book's climax, Cassandra, sitting in her study one night, tries to summon her best wisdom about her peculiar calling as she looks at a map of Greece: "Naxos, Rhodes, Samothrace.

These peculiar calls are described in field guides as dog-like but, as often as not, the clipped bark resolves into a reedy honk – I am under no illusions that I am on a wild goose chase.

-- In the middle of the night a few years ago, Imam Mohamed Magid got a peculiar phone call from a young man who attended his Northern Virginia mosque.

Instead of the varied plant and animal species that Hudson saw in the wilds the Indians called Mannahatta, the river banks were dotted with that peculiar species called the New Yorker.

What is this peculiar phenomenon called blushing?

A few months ago a peculiar item called "Favorite Recorded Scream" began to trickle into New York City record stores.

And if the assets are passed on to one's children or grandchildren at death, no taxes are ever paid, in a peculiar loophole called the "step-up in cost basis at death".

A structure of peculiar shape called the Bent, Blunted, False, or Rhomboidal Pyramid, which stands at Dahshūr a short distance south of Ṣaqqārah, marks an advance in development toward the strictly pyramidal tomb.

This is the reason for another peculiar option, called en passant that is, in passing available to a pawn when an enemy pawn on an adjoining file advances two squares on its initial move and could have been captured had it moved only one square.

Dario Argento, one of the few whose sensibility comes close to being as imaginatively unsavory as Poe's, took a stab at the master in a peculiar picture called "Two Evil Eyes" (1990), which consists of a version of "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," directed by George A. Romero, and a "Black Cat" directed by Mr. Argento himself; Mr. Argento's eye is very much the more evil of the two.