Sentence examples for stands odd from inspiring English sources

While Missing Something gets weird quickly, the laughs come from more relatable parts of living in London: avoiding one-night stands, odd flatmates, bad dates.

The O in "O'Horten" stands for Odd, which is something of a translinguistic pun.

O.F. stands for Odd Future, the hip-hop crew that comprises most of the young people in the music video.

But in their midst stands an odd sight hundreds of solar panels, installed in August, gently sloping and ringed by a fence.

As for the others, there is a sluggishness and lack of movement to them that stands in odd counterpoint to the activeness of the walls.

With health insurance premiums across the country rising by 10percentt and in some cases much more in recent months, millions of people like Mr. Williams, and often their employers as well, are grappling with a soaring expense that stands in odd and vexing contrast to many other items in their budgets.

Last year, Paul Piff caused quite a stir when he published his finding that, upper class individuals were, more likely to break driving laws, take goods from others, lie in a negotiation, cheat and endorse unethical behaviour (this, of course, stands at odd with Charles Murray's rather naive belief that the rich are rich because of their superior moral scruples).

Satellite discs on poles, fallen from the roof, stand at odd angles like giant darts thrown into the ground.

On upper Broadway, buses and laundry trucks and cabs stood at odd angles to one another in the avenue, abandoned in midstream and then wind-smoothed into white monuments that stood about meaningfully in the dazzling low sunlight.

On her coffee table stood an odd piece of antique silver, a lily with seven petals that detached to become miniature silver dishes, a puzzle that children and grandchildren could pull apart to amuse themselves, but only Ombretta could put back together.

If you look closely at the images, they'll almost always have flaws that indicate they were created by machines, not humans – like birds with blue beaks or fruit stands with odd-shaped bananas (see above).