- peculiar
- 01. What is your mother cooking for supper? There is a very [peculiar] smell coming from the kitchen.02. One interesting [peculiarity] of pro hockey players is that many of them are very superstitious, believing their success is dependent on a lucky stick or a certain way of doing up their skates.03. Nate had a [peculiar] sense of humor which many of his co-workers found somewhat offensive.04. Computer specialists have a special language that is [peculiar] to their group, and which is practically impossible to understand for anyone who doesn't work in their field.05. Diving into the freezing waters off the Pacific Coast, I had the [peculiar] sensation that my skin was burning rather than feeling cold.06. My uncle is a rather [peculiar] old man who talks to birds more than he ever talks to people.07. I had a [peculiar] conversation with my neighbor, who accused me of spying on her.08. This bird is [peculiar] to the Amazon forest.09. Homosexuality was once thought to be [peculiar] to the human race, but recent evidence suggests that it also occurs among other animals.10. The old woman's eyes were very [peculiar]; they seemed to look everywhere at once while actually seeing nothing at all.11. French artist Georges Seurat once remarked to Vincent van Gogh that originality depends only on the character of the drawing, and the vision [peculiar] to each artist.12. After losing his leg in a car accident, the victim reported a [peculiar] sensation of an itching feeling in the toes of the foot which was no longer there.13. My neighbor is a [peculiar] old woman who never talks to anybody but her cats and the birds outside her house.14. One [peculiarity] of Fiji's main island is the large contrast between the wet, green eastern side, and the hot, dry western part.15. Abraham Lincoln once noted that every man is said to have his [peculiar] ambition.
Grammatical examples in English. 2013.