Sentence examples for peculiar real from inspiring English sources

Because of Manhattan's peculiar real estate system, even finding out about the apartment had been a matter of persistence and luck.

Some sound peculiar but real (the Long Island Duck Decoy Society); others, you hope, are fabricated (Children Without Manners).

This arrangement, too, seemed too peculiar to be real.

Like all venerable clubs that close their doors, the Bottom Line takes with it the peculiar confluence of real estate, acoustics, bookings, memories and lingering physical vibrations that added up to transform an empty room into a landmark.

Green Street Advisors, the Newport Beach, Calif .research firm, came up with the price/earnings ratios using a definition of earnings peculiar to the real estate industry.

The flies strike a peculiar sight in real life.

The simulation results show a general agreement with the experimental finding on etched material characterization, capturing also many peculiar characteristics of the real profiles and nano-structures of the etched material.

And for naysayers who think that his peculiar markings aren't real, his owners have posted photographs of the markings close-up.

And he became known for a correspondingly real if peculiar way of working: publicity stressed that he had spent three weeks living in a veterans' hospital among paraplegics, learning how they moved and what they felt.

The voter unrest that is manifesting itself in myriad (and often peculiar) ways reflects a real fear that not just family finances but the country itself is in a state of decline.

For this peculiar grab bag of real but fairly minor sins, Mr. Rangel is now being promoted by the Republicans as a symbol of lapsed ethics in a Congress controlled by Democrats.