Sentence examples for the peculiar things from inspiring English sources

One of the peculiar things about the world of finance is that it freely offers the sensation of being proved right to its participants.

One of the peculiar things about that peculiar family was why a gaggle of millionaires chose to live together in the same house.

Roya (Lily Balsen) is a relatively passive and opaque presence; we mostly hear from the officers (both played by Abraham Makany) and from Paul Jay Pattersonn), who spends a lot of time stepping outside the scene and listing long strings of words detailing the peculiar things around him ("Screeching of taxiing American cargo jets... Brats playing at the feet of pilgrims in black burqas").

One of the peculiar things about this story is that, because of all the tumult, Mayor Brown was able to not only appoint the first Asian chief of the department and the first black chief — which he did before the scandal — but also to name the first woman chief and then to turn the department back over to an Irish chief, Alex Fagan.

But one of the peculiar things about couture is that while great pride is taken in the skills of the atelier, and huge respect is paid to the creativity of the designers, the rich women who buy the clothes are very rarely mentioned.

All this should take the unassuming but consistently funny Welshman to the much-deserved next level of his career, and bring a bigger audience to his stand-up, which is a melange of almost unbelievable but somehow horribly plausible tales of the peculiar things that have happened to him throughout his life.

Then the peculiar thing would happen.

The peculiar thing here is that Rooney is smiling.

The peculiar thing is it turned out to be a foreigner".

Their day: the peculiar thing about the modern authors Ted revelled in was that they were nearly all antiques.

The peculiar thing about O'Hara's "surrealistic" style is that it sounds not like early Ashbery but like late Ashbery.