Sentence examples for peculiar child from inspiring English sources

By his own account, he was a slightly peculiar child.

For a friend, since I was a lonely, peculiar child who had trouble making friends.

Kai is a singular and peculiar child, watchful and troubled, much given to proclamations about dead birds and imminent extinction.

There was Rachid, a "slightly peculiar child" who, at the age of nearly 4, did not use language to communicate.

While she spends much of her time presenting glitzy TV shows and talent contests like a sort of Nigerian Holly Willoughby, Paul's real skills emerge when she adopts the guise of Tatafo, an endlessly curious, deeply peculiar child whose innocent observations cut the adult world down to size.

With its front gable, crooked cedar shakes, bark and tiny windows, it does indeed resemble a peculiar child's dwelling, a fairytale cabin that should be in the woods, or even a playhouse.

The peculiar children try to save their beloved headmistress.

Ransom Riggs's recent novel, "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" (2011), was illustrated with found photographs.

Holdovers Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children and Deepwater Horizon rounded out the top five with $8.9m and $6.4m respectively.

Last weekend's champ, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, fell roughly 50% to $15m for a second-place finish.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is one of the most near-perfect ideas for a novel I've ever come across.