How to Use peculiarity in a Sentence

peculiarity

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  • It is a peculiarity of the house that there is no front door.
  • Scientists tried to explain some peculiarities in the results of the experiment.
  • And forgotten in the peculiarity and somber mood of Game 5 was the fact that the Raptors had the ball with a chance to win the game and couldn’t come through.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 June 2019
  • In an eerie peculiarity, this was the same exact day and place that Wade was buried.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 29 Nov. 2023
  • But here, the girl is too small, too fragile, to be a mother, and that peculiarity of scale is odd, too.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2016
  • Jake has yet to learn his own peculiarity, but soon learns that he’s meant to protect and keep his new home safe.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 25 July 2022
  • One of the peculiarities of the revenge genre is that the revenger is often dragged down with their target.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
  • And Blue Peacock's name wasn't the end of its peculiarities.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2018
  • His first task will be earning money, and he has been led to believe that the best route is to trade on the peculiarity of his story.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Such a project would have likely just been ignored, buried in the stormy seas of the podcast charts as an angry peculiarity.
    — Vulture, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Yet there’s still a bit of peculiarity to its style, particularly the odd bulges on the hood.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 17 July 2021
  • In the process, decks of cards reveal peculiarities of their origins.
    — Adrienne Bernhard, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
  • This peculiarity is just one that Sarah Fay explores in this piece.
    — Kara Devlin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
  • In 1916, Virginia Woolf wrote about a peculiarity that runs through all real works of art.
    — Jenny Offill, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The peculiarity is that there are many players on my team that do have their own club teammates facing them.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 9 July 2018
  • Some peculiarity on which the public can’t help but gaze.
    — Graham Hillard, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • The Klamath Basin and the river that flows from it is a bit of a geographic peculiarity.
    — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The peculiarities of the site mean the hotel’s mock bow faces inland, while the stern looks on the ocean, which gives the building the aspect of an accidental shipwreck.
    — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2020
  • One peculiarity is that rains begin 2 to 3 months before seasonal winds start to bring in moist air from the ocean.
    — Ilima Loomis, Science | AAAS, 4 Aug. 2017
  • At the core of the debate is not some technical peculiarity of the financial world.
    — David Atkin, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Its warped beauty was in its peculiarity, which had as much to do with Judaism as with gender.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2019
  • One of the peculiarities of aging is that, as hair thins, toenails thicken.
    — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Some of these stem from the peculiarities of electric power.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2017
  • Jarmusch, a musician himself who performs in the rock band Sqürl, was blown away by the peculiarity of Jones’s genre-less sound.
    — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
  • There was a boom in movies about Taiwanese history and the peculiarities of Taiwanese life.
    — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • If the new novel presents a strangely neutered state of affairs, this cannot be ascribed solely to the peculiarity of its setting.
    — Paul Franz, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2020
  • There are a number of exemptions but each of them has its own peculiarities.
    — cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Anyway, they were notified of some peculiarity — something not quite right — in a barn in Preston Park, two miles from the coast.
    — Dennis Duncan, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • No, there is a huge variety of floor plans for penthouses, and many are unique because of the peculiarities of their specific buildings.
    — Michael Y. Park, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Or maybe there's some procedural peculiarity like the failure to file a cross-appeal that may end up dictating the outcome.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024

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