How to Use anomaly in a Sentence

anomaly

noun

• We couldn't explain the anomalies in the test results.
• Californians aren't the only ones vexed by rolling brownouts and other power-supply anomalies. Everyday power spikes, surges, sags, and line noise cause computers, stereo equipment, televisions, telephones, and other delicate electronic equipment to go psychotic or have complete nervous breakdowns.
  — Fortune, 25 June 2001
• The shooting was not an anomaly in the Bronx of the era.
  — Neal Hirschfeld, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2019
• Is this an anomaly, or is this a trend that the sport needs to fix?
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 15 May 2018
• If Texas were an anomaly that would be the end of the story.
  — Mark N. Templeton, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
• Whitebark pines are a bit of an anomaly in the tree world.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 July 2021
• Joyce and Kathy Zheng are a bit of an anomaly in the world of high school badminton.
  — Matt Le Cren, Naperville Sun, 11 May 2018
• The field of flags’ absence this year may be more of an anomaly than a new norm.
  — Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 1 May 2018
• But Roach's brief hot streak turned out to be an anomaly.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2017
• The Japanese prints that adorn the walls seem like an anomaly.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2019
• The White Mountain Range seems an anomaly when first glimpsed.
  — Paul McHugh, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• Just five years ago, Ecuador was an anomaly in a region of chaos.
  — Anna Gordon, Time, 19 Aug. 2023
• This tranche is going to show again that there's anomalies.
  — Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• The flame-haired British songstress has always been something of a pop anomaly.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 28 June 2018
• In an age when even high school golfers are bombing it 300 yards off the tee, Daniels is an anomaly.
  — Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 7 June 2017
• With each passing day, new anomalies have come to light.
  — R Nagaraj, Quartz India, 10 Sep. 2019
• With race brought back into view, Moore and Trump are not anomalies.
  — Nancy D. Wadsworth, Vox, 30 Apr. 2018
• By the time Maezawa flies to the moon, the state of human spaceflight may make this flight look like less of an anomaly.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 18 Sep. 2018
• Happening at Hart High is a sports anomaly for the record books.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• That Palace game, just a few days ago, already looks like an anomaly.
  — James McNicholas, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
• Overall on the Democratic side, the 2020 field is bound to be an anomaly.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
• The loss to the Raiders looked like an anomaly, but then the Bears took a week off and were humiliated by the Saints.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• But there's more that makes Banyan Tree a bit of an anomaly in this part of Mexico.
  — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2021
• The plot to kidnap and kill a governor may seem like an anomaly.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2022
• Right now, the Thorns need to prove that their loss agains North Carolina was an anomaly.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2019
• The crowdfunding campaign itself is a bit of an anomaly, as the goal was a measly $1.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 30 Aug. 2019
• Fox 8 television took a look at some of the anomalies visible from a bird's-eye view of the state.
  — Tristan Baurick, NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
• The black hole struck researchers as an anomaly due to its sheer size, being a few million times the mass of our Sun.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• But the shocking bath the owners of 70 W. Madison took is hardly an anomaly.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
• Experts can also then identify anomalies based on whether regions are out of tune, or if their volume is dampened.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025