How to Use peculiarity in a Sentence

peculiarity

noun
  • It is a peculiarity of the house that there is no front door.
  • Scientists tried to explain some peculiarities in the results of the experiment.
  • In an eerie peculiarity, this was the same exact day and place that Wade was buried.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 29 Nov. 2023
  • There are no quirks, tricks, or peculiarities to either round.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 19 Feb. 2020
  • But there were three peculiarities about his retirement that jumped out at me.
    — Austin Smith, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
  • But here, the girl is too small, too fragile, to be a mother, and that peculiarity of scale is odd, too.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2016
  • The peculiarity is that there are many players on my team that do have their own club teammates facing them.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 9 July 2018
  • There are a number of exemptions but each of them has its own peculiarities.
    — cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
  • In the process, decks of cards reveal peculiarities of their origins.
    — Adrienne Bernhard, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Was this down to the peculiarities of the circuit or has Red Bull more or less caught up?
    — Luke Smith, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • This peculiarity is just one that Sarah Fay explores in this piece.
    — Kara Devlin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
  • One of the peculiarities of aging is that, as hair thins, toenails thicken.
    — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • One of the peculiarities of the revenge genre is that the revenger is often dragged down with their target.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Yet there’s still a bit of peculiarity to its style, particularly the odd bulges on the hood.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 17 July 2021
  • Its warped beauty was in its peculiarity, which had as much to do with Judaism as with gender.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Such a project would have likely just been ignored, buried in the stormy seas of the podcast charts as an angry peculiarity.
    — Vulture, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The answer lies in the subtleties and peculiarities of the reward system, and our old friend dopamine.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • First as music, as a hook, as a melodized lyric that qualifies as catchy despite its peculiarity.
    — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
  • His first task will be earning money, and he has been led to believe that the best route is to trade on the peculiarity of his story.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2019
  • But because of the peculiarities of union contracts, not all actors are going on strike.
    — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • In those contexts, whole new food chains can emerge around the peculiarities of human behavior.
    — Kate Brown, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • At the core of the debate is not some technical peculiarity of the financial world.
    — David Atkin, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The peculiarity was simply too much to overlook.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • In contrast, the quality of light dials up the sense of peculiarity.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • One peculiarity is that rains begin 2 to 3 months before seasonal winds start to bring in moist air from the ocean.
    — Ilima Loomis, Science | AAAS, 4 Aug. 2017
  • But that method just wouldn't work for these slow-growing, long-living fish because of peculiarities in how the sharks grow cartilage.
    — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 11 Aug. 2016
  • Beyond that technical stuff there is the peculiarity of what happens in the poem.
    — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But reporting claimed that the peculiarity of his campaign stretched far beyond his online posts.
    — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • Rose of Nevada’s power lies in its peculiarities.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Sometimes explorations of the unknown cross not into a strange land but into the peculiarities of the human mind.
    — The Week Us, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024

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