Sample Sentences for
eccentric
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    I had just met the celebrated eccentric whom the locals called the Mayor of Hippie Cove,  (source)
    eccentric = unconventional or strange person
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    He's quite elderly, you know. And eccentric, the way rich people sometimes are.  (source)
    eccentric = obviously unconventional or strange
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    If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.  (source)
    eccentric = unconventional or strange
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    His eyes narrowed slightly as he took in Dumbledore's eccentric appearance.  (source)
    eccentric = unconventional
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    He so crowded on my mind his list of nature's eccentricities and possible impossibilities that my imagination was getting fired.  (source)
    eccentricities = unconventional or strange behaviors
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    Her courage could just as well have been described as eccentricity.  (source)
    eccentricity = unconventional or strange behavior
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    Settlers arrived--mostly wayward souls and eccentrics who had meandered off the Oregon Trail.  (source)
    eccentrics = unconventional or strange people
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    Advancing a step in the course, he put them next into a trot; again progressing, he pushed into a gallop; at length he contracted the circles, and yet later drove eccentrically here and there, right, left, forward, and without a break.†  (source)
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    The Dutch Tulip Man has lots of money and very eccentric ideas about how to treat cancer, but Anna thinks this guy might be a con man and possibly not even Dutch,...  (source)
    eccentric = unconventional (unusual)
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    Carrel's eccentricities fed into the media frenzy about his work.  (source)
    eccentricities = unconventional or strange behaviors
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    It was his one eccentricity.  (source)
    eccentricity = unconventional or strange behavior
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    I gave people more than I took. Middle-aged people I gave back a feeling of youth. Lonely girls? Understanding, Appreciation! An absolutely convincing show of affection. Sad people, lost people? Something light and uplifting! Eccentrics? Tolerance, even odd things they long for...  (source)
    Eccentrics = people who are strange or unconventional
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    The jurors had noted how his left eye floated and how the light winked against its dull, glassy surface as it orbited eccentrically in its socket.†  (source)
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