Sentence examples for peculiar off from inspiring English sources

Almost everything he did was magic — peculiar, off guard, tender, even tenderer.

The Mets have had a peculiar off-season.

A sitting Congressman dies in office, resigns in disgrace, or is appointed to the U.S. Senate; the governor schedules a peculiar off-cycle contest; candidates wage last minute campaigns in relative political isolation.

Its small, narrow windows offer peculiar cut-off views of the sea.

Carrie's anger is striking — even for cable TV, where female characters are allowed to be peculiar and off-putting without also being somehow adorable.

Granted, Mourning's widely hailed impact on the team as a worker nonpareil was something of a sentimental overstatement, but his invisibility in the months after his kidney transplant has been peculiar, even off-putting.

Everything seemed peculiar and off-register to me, from the icy chaser of homemade ginger ale he served with a lobster roll to the odd-tasting tart of butternut squash that came with rectangular slices of poached lamb neatly arranged in a line extending from one end of the plate to the other.

Instead, they produce slightly (and wonderfully) odd, peculiar, or off-kilter stories that are quintessentially computer-created.

The comment that I found so peculiar just kicked off this whole idea for Liberty Heights.

At the behest of the bride's parents, this peculiar party set off on a badly organised journey to a remote set of islands, and almost perished in a violent tropical storm.

Such solutions presuppose that the crisis is a one-off event peculiar to the British-French border, and that these migrants – once cordoned-off and forgotten about – won't come back and try again.