How to Use peculiarity in a Sentence

peculiarity

noun

• It is a peculiarity of the house that there is no front door.
• Scientists tried to explain some peculiarities in the results of the experiment.
• There was a boom in movies about Taiwanese history and the peculiarities of Taiwanese life.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• And forgotten in the peculiarity and somber mood of Game 5 was the fact that the Raptors had the ball with a chance to win the game and couldn’t come through.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 12 June 2019
• In an eerie peculiarity, this was the same exact day and place that Wade was buried.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 29 Nov. 2023
• But here, the girl is too small, too fragile, to be a mother, and that peculiarity of scale is odd, too.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2016
• Jake has yet to learn his own peculiarity, but soon learns that he’s meant to protect and keep his new home safe.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 25 July 2022
• One of the peculiarities of the revenge genre is that the revenger is often dragged down with their target.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
• And Blue Peacock's name wasn't the end of its peculiarities.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2018
• His first task will be earning money, and he has been led to believe that the best route is to trade on the peculiarity of his story.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2019
• Such a project would have likely just been ignored, buried in the stormy seas of the podcast charts as an angry peculiarity.
  — Vulture, 11 Mar. 2022
• Yet there’s still a bit of peculiarity to its style, particularly the odd bulges on the hood.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 17 July 2021
• In the process, decks of cards reveal peculiarities of their origins.
  — Adrienne Bernhard, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
• This peculiarity is just one that Sarah Fay explores in this piece.
  — Kara Devlin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
• In 1916, Virginia Woolf wrote about a peculiarity that runs through all real works of art.
  — Jenny Offill, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2020
• The peculiarity is that there are many players on my team that do have their own club teammates facing them.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 9 July 2018
• Some peculiarity on which the public can’t help but gaze.
  — Graham Hillard, National Review, 28 June 2019
• The Klamath Basin and the river that flows from it is a bit of a geographic peculiarity.
  — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2021
• The peculiarities of the site mean the hotel’s mock bow faces inland, while the stern looks on the ocean, which gives the building the aspect of an accidental shipwreck.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2020
• One peculiarity is that rains begin 2 to 3 months before seasonal winds start to bring in moist air from the ocean.
  — Ilima Loomis, Science | AAAS, 4 Aug. 2017
• At the core of the debate is not some technical peculiarity of the financial world.
  — David Atkin, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
• Its warped beauty was in its peculiarity, which had as much to do with Judaism as with gender.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2019
• One of the peculiarities of aging is that, as hair thins, toenails thicken.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2018
• Some of these stem from the peculiarities of electric power.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2017
• Jarmusch, a musician himself who performs in the rock band Sqürl, was blown away by the peculiarity of Jones’s genre-less sound.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• If the new novel presents a strangely neutered state of affairs, this cannot be ascribed solely to the peculiarity of its setting.
  — Paul Franz, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2020
• There are a number of exemptions but each of them has its own peculiarities.
  — cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
• Anyway, they were notified of some peculiarity — something not quite right — in a barn in Preston Park, two miles from the coast.
  — Dennis Duncan, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
• In contrast, the quality of light dials up the sense of peculiarity.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
• Debrett's suggests checking street signs to familiarize yourself with any local peculiarities.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 10 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024