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Use eccentrically in a sentence

Definition of eccentrically:

  • (adverb) In an eccentric or bizarre manner

Sentence Examples:

It is like a joint of venison on the spit, eccentrically fastened.

Indeed, there are many who regard his principles as eccentrically fastidious.

The rings should be situated eccentrically, and heavier at one side than the opposite.

The eccentrically elliptical pierces the epidermis at right angles, and lies perpendicularly in the dermis.

The telescope is thus mounted eccentrically with respect to the vertical axis around which it revolves.

And she held out an eccentrically shaped and tinted envelope; 'there's a bonny smell on it,' she observed.

She was enormously tall and slim, and eccentrically clad in Oriental draperies of some somber, richly patterned stuff.

To his delight, he found that the shaft was no longer eccentrically rebellious, but as docile as he could wish.

"We did ask for a statement from him," said Pym a little nervously; "but it was so eccentrically expressed that we suppressed it out of deference to an old gentleman whose past services to science have been great."

To throw the iron plate, and consequently the nose of the chuck, on one side, or in other words to place the work eccentrically, the screws which retain the arc are loosened, and the adjustment made by hand.

While not one of the girls could have explained just exactly how they suspected she would look, still they held a blurred picture of a picturesque mortal set apart from ordinary home folks, who would probably dress more or less eccentrically.