Sentence examples for unusual noun from inspiring English sources
The phrase "unusual noun" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a noun that is not commonly encountered or is atypical in a given context. Example: "The term 'gobbledygook' is an unusual noun that describes language that is meaningless or hard to understand."
The runners-up are HipsterPriest's inside-baseball "Unusual noun in cryptic definition - odd puzzle this" and harlobarlo's "Unfathomable opening for A. Conan Doyle's first strange mystery"; the winner is the Spätburgunde sangria of Truth101's "The problem with Spanish and German booze".
An unusual feature is that nouns are further inflected obligatorily with suffixes to show definite or indefinite meaning: e.g., bukë "bread," buka "the bread".
Similar to our findings, Seger et al. found that participants took significantly longer to generate unusual verbs to presented nouns.
These results indicate that participants with higher intelligence scores on the WAIS and RAPM generated more unusual verb responses to cued nouns.
Again, the power flows from nouns and adjectives placed in unusual combinations — the slight paradox of "slow gusts" (a gust is usually rapid) and the almost onomatopoeic "sonic wallow," which truly slows the sentence down.
Many writers employ unusual verbs and adjectives; Ms. Proulx likes weird nouns.
The noun freak is defined as, "a very unusual and unexpected event or situation," and the verb describes, "[behaviour] or cause to behave in a wild and irrational way, typically because of the effects of extreme emotion or drugs".
A hallmark of Mr. Hemon's style is his fondness for unusual coinages, in particular the way he pairs adjectives and nouns that may at first glance seem unlikely companions.
