How to Use oddball in a Sentence

oddball

noun

• He used to be a real oddball back in high school.
• Wyck is an oddball — every town seems to have one.
  — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
• Son and Kim are a great choice to play this oddball cat-and-mouse duo.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
• All the sun’s planets are oddballs.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
• Do not make any phone calls to the numbers given in the these oddball texts.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Nov. 2022
• But the feathery oddball is so quick that nobody's been able to catch it.
  — Scottie Andrew and Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 1 Aug. 2019
• As will anyone who isn’t a total oddball.
  — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Feb. 2026
• Cozy, oddball, and very much autumnal, this movie is one of the great fall classics.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2022
• Which is why the Sia stance is so — well, oddball, in the best sense possible.
  — Donna Freydkin, Allure, 26 Dec. 2017
• With such an oddball crew, there were (and remain) plenty of reasons not to date climbers.
  — Matt Samet, Outside Online, 3 Jan. 2025
• The Pythons were each their own kind of oddball, and the bits are only funny with fresh bite.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Photonic qubits are the oddball of the three that seem to be succeeding.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2019
• Like any good outsider oddball, the young Predator needs a buddy for his trek.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
• Turns out there are enough oddball items on shelves that scavenging for the weirdest finds has become a trend.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2024
• There are stars that are oddballs, the ones that interest the astrophysics types.
  — Eugene Parker, National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2019
• But the film’s achievement is the fly-on-the-wall view of personal moments and oddball songs.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 1 Feb. 2021
• Britain has some of the world’s leading climate-change researchers, activists, and oddball thinkers.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021
• His character is a friend to Ted, as well as a sounding board and a kind of oddball savant.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2023
• This oddball would have lived when more modern-looking animals, such as snails, cephalopods and corals, were on the rise.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2023
• There are some outliers — Pluribus and The Rehearsal would be oddballs in any year.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
• To my young self — feeling like an oddball in a new school in a new city — Neptune seemed a kindred spirit.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2021
• Sailors, at least, love the wind, and there are even some oddballs who fancy a bit of fog (they’re called Londoners).
  — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2023
• As the day wound down and the last oddballs in full ghillie suits and neon green kilts stumbled off the distillery grounds, the sun was still nowhere near setting.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
• Keaton continued to play oddballs with a peculiar way of talking, though none were trivial or stupid.
  — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2025
• For the initial 10 minutes, the oddball questions remained in left field.
  — Chronicle News Services, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2021
• The Snapdragon 675 is the one oddball listing in that spec sheet.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2020
• It was followed by an oddball one-off called Teenagers From Outer Space.
  — Darryn King, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
• Maybe the most polished of the new Latin oddballs I’ve been obsessed with is EQ.
  — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 11 June 2025
• The Baltoro boot is somewhat of an oddball in Nike’s sprawling archive.
  — Riley Jones, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
• Lene Lovich, another brilliant oddball, is a perfect opener for the tour.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2025