How to Use anomalous in a Sentence

anomalous

adjective

• Researchers could not explain the anomalous test results.
• But the Schubert did, in the end, seem a bit anomalous.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
• And that’s just one of the things that appeared anomalous with Shopclues.
  — Itika Sharma Punit, Quartz India, 1 Nov. 2019
• 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 law enforcement has swept in to aid the anomalous birds before.
  — Helen Wieffering, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
• This should create some anomalous light leaks in the middle of its transit.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Dr. Titze saw a chance to figure out whether his anomalous findings were real.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 8 May 2017
• Britain’s right-wing press has spent years pumping out a steady ooze of anomalous stories about welfare scroungers.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2017
• The rise in pollen levels came after a sluggish start when counts were surprised by an anomalous chill.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021
• But Labe notes the most anomalous warmth is currently found across the northern half of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 26 July 2024
• Their white sides whooshed by, their presence anomalous in this valley where almost no one lives.
  — Wired, 20 Sep. 2019
• The anomalous weather is part of a global heatwave that is on course to make this the warmest winter on record worldwide.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2020
• 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
• April extremes A slew of daily temperature records were set during the month, thanks to the anomalous warmth.
  — Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
• 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
• The thin shred of hope is that anomalies like Caleb will lead mankind to the anomalous destiny of survival, but those final shots are not optimistic.
  — Scott Tobias, New York Times, 4 May 2020
• 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
• Between the lines: Schmidt also noted that the slightly hotter July is still following a trend away from 2023's anomalous warmth.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 12 Aug. 2024
• The researchers determined that the explanation for the tag’s anomalous readings was that the device had spent several days inside the stomach of a different animal.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024