How to Use eccentricity in a Sentence

eccentricity

noun

• Talking to her plants is one of her many eccentricities.
• Some people weren't very tolerant of his eccentricity.
• The big thing for us was capturing the essence and eccentricities of the ‘70s punk scene in London.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 June 2023
• In some hands, the life of Richard Davis would be an exercise in eccentricity.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2022
• Like many others who have played the game, the eccentricity keeps him coming back.
  — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 28 June 2022
• In darts, the results may depend on the paths of a few individuals and the eccentricities of the game.
  — Ben Blatt Courtney Cox, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• At the same time, Nusca sees Musk's eccentricity as a strength.
  — Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2020
• For many readers, there will inevitably be a sense of the eccentricity of such worship.
  — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Frank and Jackie took on all the chemistry and eccentricity of my own parents.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• The magic, the beauty, the eccentricity that does not belong to earthly life.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• One of the other delightful eccentricities of the work is that Ives uses a flute only in the final few pages.
  — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• The trick was to make the eccentricity believable and yet funny.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2021
• After a while, even a voter willing to put up with eccentricity can get worn out.
  — Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
• The planet of eccentricity spends seven years in each sign.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 18 Aug. 2021
• The present orbital eccentricities of Venus and Earth are extremely low, says Kane.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Nixon said that while the changes to her iconic character may throw viewers for a loop, the eccentricity is also part of Hobbes’ nature.
  — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2022
• What’s more, in the fictional pop-culture world, when girls are named after their mother, the act tends to be used to portray eccentricity.
  — Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2022
• Prince’s talent and eccentricities are the stuff of legend.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 5 Sep. 2023
• That the car is intended to mark the 25th anniversary of the victory is, well, British eccentricity.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 18 June 2020
• Maybe somebody needs to kick up a reboot with Rock in place of the kid and Smith as the out-of-control adult, drunk on fame and eccentricity and, perhaps, on the ghost of proximity to his lifelong dream.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• But no doubt, many took his remarks out of context, and further used his eccentricities to make conjectures about his drug use.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 31 July 2023
• The British—the English in particular—have an expert sense of the boundary between eccentricity (which is good) and weirdness (which isn’t).
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
• The double dress—that is, layering one dress on top of another—may sound on paper like a style eccentricity.
  — Ana Serrano, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
• Tiriac ranks his newest pupil at the top of that distinguished class in drive, raw talent, charisma, and, maybe, eccentricity.
  — Angela Gaudioso, SPIN, 22 May 2022
• Kerr wore his eccentricity like a second skin, a lesson in style that transcends fashion.
  — Courtney Lichterman, Robb Report, 3 June 2021
• The exhibition seeks to look beyond the persona of eccentricity that Warhol built for himself.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2020
• What are their nooks and crannies and crevices, their contradictions and eccentricities and messy desires?
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023
• Sometimes, though, what was indulged as eccentricity crossed a line.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• For all his seeming eccentricity, Ra wasn’t a free spirit in his personal life.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• For those of us who grew up with her cooking shows on public television – a TV career that began in 1963 and lasted for decades – seeing her here in all her gawky eccentricity is good for the soul.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024