How to Use eccentricity in a Sentence

eccentricity

noun
  • Talking to her plants is one of her many eccentricities.
  • Some people weren't very tolerant of his eccentricity.
  • But these eccentricities made Keaton love him all the more.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 26 Dec. 2025
  • And a large part of that is a desire to avoid spoiling the game's eccentricities.
    — Julie Muncy, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2018
  • Wear a few gold necklaces and chunky hoop earrings for the look too, this will add a hint of eccentricity.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Like many others who have played the game, the eccentricity keeps him coming back.
    — Brendan Connelly, The Enquirer, 28 June 2022
  • James brought with him a wife, three children, a court of Scots, and a lot of eccentricities.
    — Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The curators will swap things in and out as they get used to the eccentricities of the new building.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • After a while, even a voter willing to put up with eccentricity can get worn out.
    — Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Among his eccentricities was a phobia of getting his head wet.
    — Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The eccentricity of its orbit governs how close and how far away Earth gets from the sun.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Though beyond the champagne and eccentricities, the event served as a platform for stars to speak out.
    — Fatema Etemadi, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2017
  • For many readers, there will inevitably be a sense of the eccentricity of such worship.
    — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Travel fosters eccentricity, in the truest sense of the word.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 19 July 2016
  • For all of Bournemouth’s eccentricity, there is no unique identity that jumps off the page.
    — Brett Koremenos, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The glitch smoothed out the eccentricities of texture in the image and cast a dusky halo around every shape.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The home’s eccentricities are in keeping with Schachter’s own.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 6 May 2025
  • At the same time, Nusca sees Musk's eccentricity as a strength.
    — Naomi Xu Elegant, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The South — its look, its laziness, its lush eccentricity — deeply informs the work.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The trick was to make the eccentricity believable and yet funny.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Frank and Jackie took on all the chemistry and eccentricity of my own parents.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In some hands, the life of Richard Davis would be an exercise in eccentricity.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The eccentricities of his adult life were a far cry from the normalcy of his childhood, which by all accounts was a happy one.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
  • The eccentricities of his adult life were a far cry from the normalcy of his childhood, which by all accounts was a happy one.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • Its eccentricity is endless, with a heartfelt solo here, a zany sequence there, and a glitzy grand finale to cap it all off.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The magic, the beauty, the eccentricity that does not belong to earthly life.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2021
  • But no doubt, many took his remarks out of context, and further used his eccentricities to make conjectures about his drug use.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 31 July 2023
  • And, as the world grows heavier, delight can be found in the eccentricities and achievements of our fellow humans.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The rules say that eccentricity is rarely acceptable.
    — Steven Gray, Time, 29 Apr. 2026
  • In darts, the results may depend on the paths of a few individuals and the eccentricities of the game.
    — Ben Blatt Courtney Cox, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023

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