1
: in an odd manner
2
: as is odd
was quite happy, oddly enough
Examples of oddly in a Sentence
the house's oddly shaped roof
Their lives had been oddly similar.
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Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
The next closest team is, oddly enough, the Packers with eight straight games like that.
—Alex Zietlow
november 5, Charlotte Observer, 5 Nov. 2025
But with a sizable audience doing research to kill time between installments, the miniseries’ cast boasts an awkward attractiveness that sticks out as oddly inauthentic.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2025
In this magical hotel in the Swiss Alps, reclusive art appraiser Eve meets a man from another century who seems oddly familiar.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for oddly
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“Oddly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oddly. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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oddly
adverb
odd·ly
ˈäd-lē 
1
: in an odd manner
was behaving oddly
2
: as is odd
liked the work, oddly enough
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