eccentric

In a sentence

Six example sentences with eccentric, each labelled with its topic.

• The composer's eccentric habit of scoring for typewriter and teacup delighted audiences and baffled the orchestra's librarian.

  Music

• The eccentric millionaire built a staircase that leads nowhere, and tourists now queue to photograph its final step.

  Architecture

• Her eccentric insistence on keeping bees in the laboratory corridor turned out to produce the department's best pollination data.

  Science

• Diogenes was eccentric enough to live in a barrel and carry a lamp in daylight, saying he was searching for an honest man.

  Philosophy

• The novel's eccentric aunt keeps a goat in the drawing room and writes letters to the Prime Minister every Tuesday.

  Literature

• The eccentric founder held every meeting standing on one leg, claiming it kept the discussions short.

  Startups

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