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• The sky had a peculiar appearance before the storm.
• It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.
• I saw nothing peculiar in his conduct, and thought that his arrangement of the ballot box was perfect.
• "Wasn't it peculiar," I heard mother say, "How he wouldn't talk about himself?"
• "Peculiar?" said father. "Well, yes, in a way."
• "Everything about him is peculiar." Mother sounded as if she was stirred up and interested. "I never saw a man quite like him before."
• 2008, Stephen Arnott, Peculiar Proverbs: Weird Words of Wisdom from Around the World.
• Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.
• This philosopher found his ideas especially in all that is practical,[29] that is, which rests upon freedom, which in its turn ranks under cognitions that are the peculiar product of reason.
• As soon as that operation has taken place, the food is passed down to the stomach, and there it is mixed with the chemical fluid called the gastric juice, a substance which has the peculiar property of making soluble and dissolving out the nutritious matter in the grass, and leaving behind those parts which are not nutritious;
• But of late years extensive Tertiary deposits of Miocene age have been discovered, showing that it is not a mere congeries of volcanoes; it [Iceland] is connected with the British Islands and with Greenland by seas less than 500 fathoms deep; and it possesses a few mammalia, one of which is peculiar, and at least three peculiar species of birds.
• And purify unto himself a peculiar people.
• hymns [...] that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself
• while each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat
• My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.
• Revenge is [...] the peculiar of Heaven.