How to Use oddball in a Sentence

oddball

noun

• He used to be a real oddball back in high school.
• Do not make any phone calls to the numbers given in the these oddball texts.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 2022
• The Pythons were each their own kind of oddball, and the bits are only funny with fresh bite.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The Inspire 3 launched just last year, while the Luxe is a bit of an oddball in Fitbit’s lineup.
  — Victoria Song, The Verge, 21 Aug. 2023
• Cozy, oddball, and very much autumnal, this movie is one of the great fall classics.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2022
• As the day wound down and the last oddballs in full ghillie suits and neon green kilts stumbled off the distillery grounds, the sun was still nowhere near setting.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
• Sailors, at least, love the wind, and there are even some oddballs who fancy a bit of fog (they’re called Londoners).
  — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2023
• His character is a friend to Ted, as well as a sounding board and a kind of oddball savant.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
• The oddball guise is one of many that Alvarez has dreamed up and posted to social media since 2020.
  — Shane Barnes, Pitchfork, 12 Oct. 2023
• Pack horses ferried food up to the cabins of the artsy oddballs in Laurel Canyon.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Wish, like Temu, for a while blitzed Facebook and Google with ads pitching oddball products such as meat socks.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• This oddball would have lived when more modern-looking animals, such as snails, cephalopods and corals, were on the rise.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2023
• The Guardians movies have been a major hit for Marvel ever since Gunn's oddball space crew first hit theaters in 2014.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 24 July 2022
• In Los Angeles, the punk scene bristled with oddball energy around bands like X and the Germs.
  — Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 3 May 2022
• Herrero grew up in a family of brawny, oddball leftists in the right-wing redoubt of Toulon, on the Mediterranean coast.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• In Little’s novel, Mr. Patoff is the oddball consultant who shows up wearing a bow tie and a weird smile.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Jan. 2023
• Fifteen years ago, Satoshi brought the idea of an electronic cash system into being with the help of a small cast of oddballs.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, Scott and Cassie meet an oddball group of freedom fighters and ultimately the scarred face that runs the place.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2023
• Two oddball comedies are back on TV after a long hiatus.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• Her favorite subjects were strivers and oddballs, the dispossessed and the people who dared to be delighted in the face of life’s struggles.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• Here’s the kind of oddball discovery that keeps RSD fun for those who aren’t so much into repackagings.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 June 2022
• Hence the oddball name, llamas being a thing in Patagonia.
  — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• Thunder God's Tale features oddball oni who are cuddly and goofy.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
• Were there any precedents at all in your mind in terms of people doing kind of oddball side projects — later in their career or at all?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2022
• Some of the oddball humor in these vignettes lands thuddingly.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2022
• These four teenagers laze around the neighborhood, pulling small-time heists and oddball capers, but also mourning the loss of their friend Daniel, who took his own life prior to the start of the show.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• The no-hope golfer is brilliantly played by Mark Rylance, a peculiar kind of actor and hence an ideal choice for the oddball of the title.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 2 June 2022
• But perhaps the biggest oddball among Classic.com’s list of the biggest gainers is the infamous Amphicar at 40th place.
  — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• Tuesday marked the official end of an oddball fashion month.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Oct. 2022
• Pink Slip was loud, rude, crude, weird, and made up almost entirely of oddballs who got bullied by the popular girls.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024