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Definition of peculiar:

  • (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category
  • (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
  • (adjective) markedly different from the usual

Sentence Examples:

I tied my horse at the corner and went down to the shop with a peculiar new interest.

He had never seen her smoke, and it struck him as peculiar that she should be smoking now.

He glanced at his mother; she was ignorant and peculiar, but she was his mother still.

The ship was fitted up in a manner peculiar, but adapted to the service she was upon.

And now I'll tell you why this ruin of Julian would be a peculiar triumph for his will.

In youth one has his own peculiar view of life, but, young man, it is not the right one.

Added Tim, with one of his peculiar grins, as he took the pen that was handed to him.

Each knew his own peculiar followers, but he did not know how many the other could muster.

The peculiar odor, or whatever it was, was gone, and I could find no further trace of it.

On this point, the duke laid peculiar weight on the few words which he could spare to me.

It bears the marks of his peculiar genius; it has the germs of his merits and his defects.

The old draper could not help making a grimace with his lips, which was peculiar to him.

The first, the peculiar, trust that was put in him, was to redress all those grievances.

She was a vessel of not more than eight hundred tons, and her build was quite peculiar.

The desire to travel and see the great world is by no means peculiar to the human race.

Each seems to have a style of formations peculiar to itself, though of infinite variety.

That it was not the smoke from her guns we could see at once by its peculiar color.

The last two steps of the stair had a peculiar effect on Darius.

What I mean, is the peculiar place in which the crime was committed.

Nick, to whom this was addressed, showed his teeth in a peculiar smile.

A peculiar sound like a jet of air suddenly shot out of the crack in the earth close by.

The man showed his teeth in a laugh, and put his hands round his neck in a peculiar way.

Cried Hampton, who was looking in with a peculiar expression upon his countenance.

When it reached the bank, it uttered a peculiar cry and stood still.

He met her next rush with his chest, in a peculiar fashion that tumbled her off her feet.

Even the greater antiquity of style has its peculiar appropriateness to the subject.

My regard for Tom was excessive, and his situation one of peculiar danger.

Asked Creamer, with that "dazed" expression peculiar to persons who have been "lost."

And this appears to Mr Mitford to constitute his peculiar title to admiration.

I suppose I'm the only man in town that thinks this way, but I'm a sort of peculiar duck!

This peculiar auxiliary to the sense of hearing calls for the closest attention.

She had a mania for meeting and knowing all kinds of peculiar people.

The peculiar radiance of ice trembled off it like a luminous mist into the dusk.

He is so superior a person that to catch him tripping is a peculiar pleasure.

The freedom from convention lent another peculiar charm to the life in France.

They were compelled to assume a peculiar manner, and to talk in a peculiar style.

Why is it that biography has such a peculiar fascination for most men?

On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure.

It was a peculiar sound, like the soft bang which is made by the closing of a safe door.

He had peculiar notions, which he was fond of discussing with his customers.

Winter, a commissioner of police, and taught him his peculiar methods of calculation.

It upholds no peculiar sect of religion, which almost all the rest do.

He put his hands to his mouth forthwith, and uttered a peculiar cry.

He was a peculiar man, and men of this sort cannot be sketched off in a few lines.

In addition to the peculiar feel of a cutting scratch, is the sound of it.

The spectators looked with amazement at the peculiar methods of those mysterious persons.

Last winter I lost perhaps one-third of the trees with a peculiar condition.

He had a peculiar religion of his own and could not get on with any of the denominations.

Mud whose moisture-content is spilled beer has a peculiar smell all its own.

Then that accounts for a very peculiar proceeding on the part of Hurst.

Then he flushed all over with a peculiar pricking sensation down the spine.

This want of interest may be in part explained by their peculiar nature.

A man who stood by explained to us that this slate is a peculiar product of their islands.

They are exposed to peculiar dangers calling for special effort on their behalf.

Their method of reasoning and their way of speaking had a peculiar charm.

Altogether, it was a peculiar scene, and not without a marked grotesque character.

If she was peculiar and silent, they knew her, and knew that she might be relied on.

I have told Chapman and Hall that you may like to have a block of a peculiar shape for it.

She had a peculiar place of her own in the corner of a peculiar sofa, and there she lived.

This plea is not peculiar to those who have been some time in the ministry.

Lady Myrtle glanced at her with one of her peculiar but approving smiles.

A police sergeant gazed at me in a most peculiar way about two minutes ago.

Several of them became lonely old men, with peculiar thoughts and peculiar habits.

This Method of Residues is in truth a peculiar modification of the Method of Difference.

They undergo a peculiar process of shrinking from extraction of water from them.

The peculiar thing was, that his head was on the table beside him, and not on his neck.

It is their peculiar natural instinct, which prompts them in all their actions.

His recovery from this fit of intoxication is marked with several peculiar appearances.

We refer to the peculiar growth, power, and progress of the English language.

To really enjoy life in a Camp of Instruction requires a peculiar cast of mind.

The hunter knows this by their peculiar bark, hurries to the spot and spears the game.

All these, however, are only peculiar to men and women of intense passion.

This peculiar flavor is caused by the condition of the grape when pressed.

Under the trees here, the wall of that small cliff has the most peculiar weather markings.

His rhymes were as queer as himself, while his dancing was equally peculiar.

Good judgment was necessary in the personal and peculiar fitness of the advocate.

His whole soul was in the spread and development of his peculiar doctrines.

In his general views on this question, Carpenter takes a somewhat peculiar position.

"It is very peculiar; you must see that your explanation sounds extremely odd."

Lying at our very doors, they seem to have a peculiar claim on our compassion.

These crimes are the peculiar offense of the women members of the tribe.

Michael's manner was so peculiar that she was sure something must have happened.

Exclaimed he, springing toward me with one of his own peculiar bear-like bounds.

He saw her object, and stayed her in his own peculiar authoritative fashion.

Unhappy pride how many forms it assumes, and who is without his own peculiar form of it?

Holmes, for my feeling toward him has always been one of peculiar warmth.

The peculiar and complex nature of the child offered her a tremendous advantage.

Asked the hermit with a peculiar smile, which inspired new hope in Robert.

What observer can at the first glance seize upon the child's peculiar traits?

The young lady regarded this addition to her party with a peculiar interest.

There is on this field a state of hypocrisy peculiar to no earlier social period.

This nervous tremor was not peculiar to the engineers of our transportation department.

"Peculiar," said the count, looking out into the garden over the professor's head.

The name was not only peculiar, but new to me; but this was of no importance at all.

The relation between author and publisher ought to be neither complicated nor peculiar.

I had time for Jim's affairs, because society had peculiar horrors for me.

And then a peculiar smile crossed his face, a light of dawning comprehension.

Such scenes seem to have a peculiar charm for women, and Nelly was the first to notice it.

A peculiar note in the old man's voice and the look in his face placed Keith on his guard.

What was then a peculiar creed has now become a very widespread notion.