"peculiar" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That ghastly neologism is just the latest example of the peculiar American tendency toward tautological idioms.
- This change is wasteful of expensive U-235, but reduces the RBMK reactor's peculiar tendency to speed up uncontrollably under certain operating conditions.
- These peculiar tendencies of roans led to the Icelandic word for roan, which translates as "always changing color."
- His wife, it was said, had a peculiar tendency to talk about her ancestors as if she had daily conversations with them.
- The rider seemed to slump a little in the saddle, in the direction of his horse's off side, a tendency peculiar to only one man he knew.
- This edition of the New Testament arose out of the peculiar tendency among the Taylor Exclusive Brethren to complete and exact uniformity.
- The British media's peculiar psychological tendency to build up sportsmen only to make them scapegoats, at a later stage, for wider national ills is well enough recognised by cricketers.
- He felt the withering of an old habit--a human's peculiar tendency to think about Romulans as just Vulcans gone sour.
- Either that, or Koppel has a peculiar tendency to speak from the mountaintop inside his own head.
- The stem bark has a peculiar tendency to peel off in several successive thin layers with different colors, hence the common name "sevenbark".
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