How to Use anomalous in a Sentence

anomalous

adjective

• Researchers could not explain the anomalous test results.
• The coast isn’t the only area that will see anomalous weather this week.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2020
• Since word of the anomalous monolith spread through Wales and England, tourists and news crews have flocked to the bluff to get a look.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
• In the end, the parking lot is an anomalous hole on a questionable edge.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• For early birds, the breakfast menu is just as anomalous.
  — Erica Cheng, Chron, 10 Aug. 2021
• If the news about AMC seems familiar, it’s because the saga isn’t anomalous.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 12 Nov. 2022
• But there is far more to these anomalous animals than that.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
• Gallo is such an anomalous hitter in the sense that there are so many numbers about him that are just so far off the norm.
  — Dallas News, 1 June 2021
• The rise in pollen levels came after a sluggish start when counts were surprised by an anomalous chill.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021
• The anomalous heat in the Arctic can form rising air from the surface, and that can strengthen the low pressure system, which is one of the the spinning vortex.
  — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 19 May 2022
• The guilty verdict was anomalous; these arguments were not.
  — Stuart Schrader, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
• Such fires might seem like anomalous, once-in-a-lifetime occurrences.
  — Shannon Osaka, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• Suddenly, there was a large, anomalous plume of fire from the rocket's engine, and the escape motor on board the spacecraft fired.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2022
• While spring came on fast with a mild March, April and May were more volatile with bouts of both anomalous warmth and much cooler-than-normal conditions.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• That remembrance of the past through the estrangement of the real — in this case, through the cathartic, anomalous thrill of disco — is the crux of Byrne’s musical.
  — Gina Apostol, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• This further cements the idea that an anomalous region of the far side of the Moon was formed through volcanic activity.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• But that’s partly due to it getting sealed off from the northern half and partly due to an anomalous winter of abundant snow.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
• Toyota’s reign is probably anomalous and could be short-lived.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 5 Jan. 2022
• But the previous heat wave—the one centered on the Pacific Northwest and Canada—may have been more anomalous.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 14 July 2021
• These companies weren’t anomalous in going public at the early stages of their growth.
  — Josh Rutzick, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• And the examples above are likely to become less anomalous and more characteristic in the months and years to come.
  — Deena Shakir, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• In any case, the dynamics of the most recent episode are anomalous, compared to previous rate-hike programs.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• But the anomalous soil, a carbon-rich layer that other archaeologists called the black mat, was full of them.
  — Zach St. George, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• Nor is the Dunning School itself anomalous in the history of American academe.
  — Michael Bérubé, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2022
• The history of Williams Selyem has always been anomalous.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• That’s ordinary for a tethered dog, but something else is anomalous.
  — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• Velikiye Luki, a new Russian sub slated to join the fleet, is a sign of Moscow’s anomalous undersea force.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2023
• There are few of the anomalous features that are common in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other texts from later in antiquity, to say nothing of the howlers in many modern forgeries.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
• The shooting in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 grocery shoppers dead wasn't anomalous.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 19 May 2022
• Cidni was diagnosed with anomalous aortic origin of the left coronary artery in 2018.
  — oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024