How to Use anomalous in a Sentence

anomalous

adjective
  • Researchers could not explain the anomalous test results.
  • But such moments were anomalous.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The coast isn’t the only area that will see anomalous weather this week.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Yet this approach wasn’t anomalous.
    — Dilan Gomih, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But the idea is that those kinds of disasters will be anomalous and calm, clean saves will be the norm.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • In the end, the parking lot is an anomalous hole on a questionable edge.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • But law enforcement has swept in to aid the anomalous birds before.
    — Helen Wieffering, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • This should create some anomalous light leaks in the middle of its transit.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2020
  • This is a highly anomalous storm for a number of reasons.
    — Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • And that’s just one of the things that appeared anomalous with Shopclues.
    — Itika Sharma Punit, Quartz India, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The anomalous floral prints of the spring 1999 show.
    — Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Their white sides whooshed by, their presence anomalous in this valley where almost no one lives.
    — Wired, 20 Sep. 2019
  • There's a kind of vibration that happens that's just so anomalous.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Toyota’s reign is probably anomalous and could be short-lived.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Such fires might seem like anomalous, once-in-a-lifetime occurrences.
    — Shannon Osaka, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • Britain’s right-wing press has spent years pumping out a steady ooze of anomalous stories about welfare scroungers.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Eichenberger added that the study’s findings are not anomalous.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The rise in pollen levels came after a sluggish start when counts were surprised by an anomalous chill.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Gallo is such an anomalous hitter in the sense that there are so many numbers about him that are just so far off the norm.
    — Dallas News, 1 June 2021
  • In this way, the process can boost the anomalous heat flow beyond what can be achieved without such a catalyst.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2025
  • His anomalous body lacked decency.
    — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • It's always been this anomalous, weird thing, maybe along with The Simpsons, as well.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Everybody always looks for the anomalous stuff.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
  • These companies weren’t anomalous in going public at the early stages of their growth.
    — Josh Rutzick, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • To figure out what its anomalous hydrogen content was trying to say, the team would have to dig deeper.
    — Popular Science, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The anomalous weather is part of a global heatwave that is on course to make this the warmest winter on record worldwide.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The anomalous performance was a refreshing reminder of what was, and what was supposed to be.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • But that’s partly due to it getting sealed off from the northern half and partly due to an anomalous winter of abundant snow.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Since word of the anomalous monolith spread through Wales and England, tourists and news crews have flocked to the bluff to get a look.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The man who has tried to outwork everyone to take care of his anomalous body faced a dangerous anomaly anyway.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

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