Sentence examples for peculiar means from inspiring English sources

I thought I was dying by peculiar means: mobbed by the iridescent wings of butterflies.

Mongrel-provocateurs, you dare to question what, precisely, are these unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style?

"They will reduce all the ratlike groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style".

Throughout the 1990s and halfway through the 2000s, the Cuban government adopted some peculiar means of dealing with the deteriorating public transport.

This peculiar sensitivity means that mainstream French politicians cannot candidly discuss the future.

The stuff is essential to life on Earth, and its peculiar properties mean those hunting aliens think the same will be true elsewhere.

Gay sinners in the closet, darkies picking and grinning on the porch, America the way God (their very particular and peculiar God) meant it to be.

It's a club within a club, a small, windowless room sealed off from the downstairs social swirl and ruled by its own peculiar rituals, meant to suggest a vanished world of privilege and high style.

The contrast between appearance and reality, however, is by no means peculiar to metaphysics.

Devotion to relics is by no means peculiar to Western cultures; Africa and Asia offer many variations on it.

Thinking in terms of generations is by no means peculiar to the field of art, but it is more common there than in literature or music.