Explore Odd through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like unusual or unpaired. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Odd in a sentence
Related words
Odd meaning
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
Synonyms of Odd
Using Odd
- The main meaning on this page is: Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected. | Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected. | Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- Useful related words include: unusual, unpaired, unmated, unmatched.
- In the example corpus, odd often appears in combinations such as: an odd, the odd, odd number.
Context around Odd
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Odd
- In this selection, "odd" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 30.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bit, first, remaining, case, numbered and numbers stand out and add context to how "odd" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 135 is odd, a bit odd that they, bit odd and odd numbers. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "odd" sits close to words such as grants, intention and charlotte, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with odd
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Because the square of an odd number is odd, that in turn implies that a is even. (17 words)
You get the odd eejit having the odd comment: ‘He should have gone here, he should have gone there’. (19 words)
An even quicker check is that the product of even and odd numbers is even, whereas 142,135 is odd. (20 words)
The beer, called Odd Idea, was brewed on the one-barrel pilot system at Odd Alewives, and Morse’s sauerkraut was added twice during the brewing process, which provided the salt and many of the organisms that would be used to ferment the beer. (44 words)
For interlaced scanning, an odd number of lines per frame was required in order to make the vertical retrace distance identical for the odd and even fields, which meant the master oscillator frequency had to be divided down by an odd number. (42 words)
If addition is used, it is required that at least one of the first k values chosen to initialise the generator be odd; if multiplication is used, instead, it is required that all the first k values be odd. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
For interlaced scanning, an odd number of lines per frame was required in order to make the vertical retrace distance identical for the odd and even fields, which meant the master oscillator frequency had to be divided down by an odd number.
Yes, it is a bit odd that they will have to defeat one of the other nations that make up the selection group for Great Britain, but it is all a bit of an odd system in general.
Although there's been the odd case where they've been cut off, that's the very odd case,' Mr Lloyd said.
So, if you park your car before midnight, leave it on the odd side during odd days and on the even side during even days.
The fourth edition of Odd Talks takes place at Odd Society Spirits (1725 Powell St.) on Monday, August 26, welcoming incredible singer-songwriter Tonye Aganaba who will be sharing her experience of being black in Vancouver.
You get the odd eejit having the odd comment: ‘He should have gone here, he should have gone there’.
The beer, called Odd Idea, was brewed on the one-barrel pilot system at Odd Alewives, and Morse’s sauerkraut was added twice during the brewing process, which provided the salt and many of the organisms that would be used to ferment the beer.
An effect of the instability of an odd number of either type of nucleons is that odd-numbered elements, such as the alkali metals, tend to have fewer stable isotopes than even-numbered elements.
An even quicker check is that the product of even and odd numbers is even, whereas 142,135 is odd.
A probabilistic heuristic If one considers only the odd numbers in the sequence generated by the Collatz process, then each odd number is on average 3/4 of the previous one.
A simple example is that almost all prime numbers are odd, which is based on the fact that all but one prime number are odd.
Because the square of an odd number is odd, that in turn implies that a is even.
For a contract in no trump, the declaring side is awarded 40 points for the first odd trick and 30 points for the remaining odd tricks.
For an odd Gaussian prime and a Gaussian integer relatively prime to with define the quadratic character for by: : Let be distinct Gaussian primes where a and c are odd and b and d are even.
For such a triple, either a or b is even, and the other is odd; from this, it follows that c is also odd.
Hence after an even number of moves all these three numbers are even, and after an odd number of moves all these three numbers are odd.
However, in a few cases of odd-proton, odd-neutron radionuclides, it may be energetically favorable for the radionuclide to decay to an even-proton, even-neutron isobar either by undergoing beta-positive or beta-negative decay.
However, passed through the now following faunal groups of animals in the ancient settlement areas of odd-toed ungulates, such as the mammoths, whose competition also led to the extinction of some odd-toed ungulate lines.
If addition is used, it is required that at least one of the first k values chosen to initialise the generator be odd; if multiplication is used, instead, it is required that all the first k values be odd.
If it is the same (two odd-numbered moves or two even-numbered ones) then the lower number wins, while if they are different (one odd and one even) the higher wins.
Phrases with odd
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with odd
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an odd 44×
- the odd 40×
- odd number 12×
- odd that 10×
- odd and 9×
- is odd 8×
- it odd 8×
- are odd 6×
- odd to 6×
- bit odd 5×