Sentence examples for peculiar like from inspiring English sources

Without them he looked naked, peculiar, like a lorry cab without its trailer.

A cold egg drop soup made with fermented rice was vaguely beery and very peculiar, like a home brewer's first batch.

At first, this feels peculiar, like drawing a line by holding pencils in each hand and connecting two exterior points to a center.

Others are peculiar, like emptying mailboxes in the blocks around the impact area and delivering the outbound mail to the Postal Service.

"If we didn't have things in our universe that seem peculiar, like the value of the cosmological constant, we wouldn't worry about it," he said.

However, if @amahmood2011 really is Bahrain's leading Sunni cleric, some of his Twitter postings are a bit peculiar, like the one suggesting that he had seen the Prophet in a dream and was given permission to shake women's hands.

And although the fighters seem to have taken a peculiar liking to me, the fact that I'm dating a local Muslim girl is counterbalancing that impression; I'm also the one who challenged them to the game they're now losing.

They are "a peculiar herd-like nation," he wrote, "often more like automatons than people".

"A Royal Game" uses ships from the Spanish Armada as chess pieces; its two figures are sumptuously detailed on a peculiar tomb-like plinth.

"To have three bones which show this complex of features really does add to the case that this is a distinct and very peculiar human-like creature".

On the first evening, at a hotel in Victoria Falls, Harry said that he'd seen a pangolin, "a peculiar anteater-like animal".