Sentence examples for peculiar year from inspiring English sources

BIGGER AND BIGGEST -- A peculiar year.

And so it was a peculiar year for Drake, a cultural juggernaut who likes to treat his albums with the fanfare and grandiosity of the Olympic Games.

This is my last post for 2011, an eventful year in fashion, a most peculiar year that saw a feverish spread of luxury brands in places like China and Brazil, chasing new wealth, even as insiders saw the Galliano scandal as a sobering episode for an industry that tends to push its talent hard.

This has been a peculiar political year, even for Alabama.

Whereas previous gatherings were characterized by conversations reflecting the diversity of religious perspectives and commitments among the participants, this year's theme seemed to be the shared experience--regardless of tradition--of being almost entirely sidelined by the political discourse of this peculiar election year.

The peculiar three-year breeding cycle of the kings ensures that penguins at all life stages can be found at any given time at a single rookery.

In Submarine (Hamish Hamilton, February), young newcomer Joe Dunthorne's cheerfully peculiar 15-year-old narrator is a worthy successor to Adrian Mole.

The exceptionally bright and somewhat peculiar 10-year-old Elias, living in a fantasy world, adamantly refuses to believe that his father won't return.

If anything, their brief reign looks more extraordinary and peculiar 35 years on than it did then, viewed now on BBC4 through their near-constant appearances on repeats of 1981's Top of the Pops.

During that peculiar 11-year period, some gay activists in and outside southwest Ohio sought to trigger a boycott of the city's convention hotels and highlight the black eye they claimed the amendment's passage dealt to the local business climate.

But things take a turn for the bizarre once one starts looking at the peculiar choices made year after year in the "best spoken word album" category.