"peculiar" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Dodgson had a peculiar horror of vivisection.
- Then there was the peculiar horror of the 1990's - the deployment of child soldiers - for which top United Nations officials reserved their strongest condemnation.
- On the road there are endless reminders of the peculiar horrors of this war.
- Some awful fates may be rare, but their peculiar horror makes them threatening in a way that a more quotidian death is not.
- Melody felt peculiar horror.
- An aloofness and even a nervousness was apparent on first acquaintance and the ladies held a peculiar horror for him.
- Even by the coarsened standards of our age, Wednesday's terror bombing in Sri Lanka evokes a peculiar horror.
- No battle, no valor, everything wasted, and no one will ever know what happened. . . . There was a peculiar horror in the thought.
- One writes now with a peculiar horror of the dress of the old world.
- When I realized that the loathsome insects were everywhere, I felt a peculiar horror that only ants can bring.
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