How to Use idiosyncrasy in a Sentence

idiosyncrasy

noun
  • The current system has a few idiosyncrasies.
  • Her habit of using “like” in every sentence was just one of her idiosyncrasies.
  • To me, a year end list rides and dies on idiosyncrasy.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
  • There are idiosyncrasies to his jump that no coach would teach.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Craig, on the other hand, is a mess of nerves and idiosyncrasies.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 May 2025
  • The show makes sure that his idiosyncrasies are as present as the story itself.
    — Luis Miguel Echegaray, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • As far as the idiosyncrasies go, adult underoos are just the start.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2024
  • But at home, my mom, creative and quirky in her own right, embraced my idiosyncrasies.
    — Ava Xiao-Lin Rigelhaupt, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2025
  • This has been the friction that’s underneath all of the idiosyncrasy.
    — Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Leading up to the start of a game is when those idiosyncrasies tend to surface most often.
    — Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
  • This can’t be written off as a post-pandemic idiosyncrasy.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
  • People joke about their quirks and idiosyncrasies.
    — Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Call these objects idiosyncrasies, but each is nonpareil, even the one with the broken nose.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 Mar. 2025
  • So the city’s idiosyncrasies have always appealed to me.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Sprinkle an idiosyncrasy here, a mannerism there, soaked up from seven decades on set.
    — Thomas Page, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The lack of a sea change in court partly has to do with the idiosyncrasies of musical copyright.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 13 June 2019
  • If attached, the two of you need to accept the other's idiosyncrasies.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • As Venus and Uranus clash, avoid taking their idiosyncrasies to heart.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Familiarity with the course, and all its idiosyncrasies, was at the top of his list.
    — Paul Newberry, ajc, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Ferris is a beautiful reader of Bruegel, and his book is more, not less, vivid for its idiosyncrasy.
    — Julian Lucas, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Its different names are one of the river’s many idiosyncrasies.
    — The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • As a result, though, the book has a handle on many of Molina's idiosyncrasies.
    — Kevin Warwick, Chicago Reader, 16 June 2017
  • Against a background of blight and bleakness, the characters dazzle us with their vivid idiosyncrasy.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • This is due to an idiosyncrasy of olive trees — different sections of roots serve only certain sections of the tree.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2018
  • The 750 has its small faults, but its talents overwhelm its idiosyncrasies.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The issue of who pays for fire service in Anchorage stems from the idiosyncrasies of how the city has evolved over time.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The performance-art aspect of the project is matched by the idiosyncrasy of the inventory.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Each character is set up simply, but as the narrative builds, so do their idiosyncrasies.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the videos are gentle teasing about the idiosyncrasies of working at a bar or retreads of other viral videos.
    — Lauren Chapman, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Drivers will need to learn its idiosyncrasies, which Hotz argues is the same for any modern, high-tech car on the road today.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 13 July 2018

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