Sentence examples for speaks odd from inspiring English sources

Although she's confident, experienced and drastically different from the Shoshanna we knew in Season 1, we still see glimmers of innocence when she speaks odd sentences in a high-pitched voice like "Did you have fun sex?" and "Bed is now?" Less endearing is her ignorance.

People in the street speak odd languages; the neighbours' cooking smells strange.

She was four feet ten and spoke an odd combination of Polish, Yiddish, French, and English.

Dave, why are you crying?" David wiped his eyes with the back of his hand and spoke with odd detachment.

We spoke at odd hours, a couple of times, I recall, after midnight, about his plans and mine.

The "invention of history" is a topic about which we can speak with odd authority; we know we, at least, did not invent history, we selected it.

— JON PARELES And speaking of odd choices, the Who on tour has been playing the whole "Quadrophenia," a rock opera set by the beach.

And Biggles and his mates were the Famous Five with stubble – they spoke in odd, strangled tones and used slang that sounded silly and old-fashioned.

For my daughter there are the female stars of iCarly and Victorious, dreadful American teen shows where the girls enjoy flicking their ludicrously coiffed hair and speaking in odd voices.

It doesn't help at all that the Tressalians speak with odd Victorian cadences ("It simply would not be dinner without one of our rousing professional differences of opinion!") that inspire wistful memories of "The Alienist," Carr's fin de siecle thriller.

We can understand sentences we have never heard before, even when they are spoken in odd or unexpected situations.