adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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feel
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I felt oddly naked without my watch, I always do.
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She has been feeling oddly lethargic all through the drills.
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Harriet waited until the door had closed after her and flicked the button, feeling oddly apprehensive.
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He was not pleased that he felt oddly fearful, like a child in a tale of a wicked stepmother.
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Then, feeling oddly guilty, as if just thinking about another man was betraying Paul, she pushed the romantic picture away.
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And he was still feeling oddly jet-lagged, shaking his head vigorously on occasion with some hope of clearing it.
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But she felt oddly detached from it, eager to be away from these happy people.
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Too many things were missing; something felt oddly out of place, like a picture hanging crooked on the wall.
look
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She trailed around the room picking up beer bottles, looking oddly like a bee with broken wings.
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One of the lenses in his little academic spectacles had acquired a crack, giving him an oddly look .
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They both looked oddly right for the part.
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She looked oddly disengaged as if she had been hypnotized.
seem
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Yet given the steamy circumstances, this whole shebang seems oddly passionless.
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Your comments seemed oddly incongruous compared with the analysts' reports I have read concerning Panda Project.
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While Timman played with impressive composure, Speelman seemed oddly distracted.
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The apartment seems oddly settled, especially since everything has been left largely as it was found.
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To most the passion seemed oddly misplaced.
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The stinging nettles and Luke Goddard seemed oddly connected in his mindand I thought I could half understand this.
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It seemed oddly perverse, in a humorous kind of way.
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Everyone seems oddly ready to judge.
shape
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There were footprints in the sawdust; and it seems to me, looking back, that some were oddly shaped .
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Shaw v. Hunt: Oddly shaped congressional districts are unconstitutional if they were designed in order to ensure black voting majorities.
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The style was motel-modern; instead of handsome, secure courtyards, Chambers had oddly shaped open spaces outdoors.
sit
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But Thursday's friendly gesture sat oddly with the government's ban on publishing the report.
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Such a rise in long-term rates sits oddly with still-scanty evidence of economic recovery.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
strangely/oddly/curiously etc enough
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And yet, strangely enough , he was.
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Everyone was hideously drunk except strangely enough myself.
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Her large grin and knotted black curls were, strangely enough , more memorable.
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It was a devastating headache but, oddly enough , as a rule he didn't mind it.
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Such basic work, oddly enough , has been largely neglected.
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The workers responded with hundreds of ideas and, oddly enough , management accepted and implemented many of them.
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Verence was right, oddly enough .
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Yet, strangely enough , it was Martinho the malais appeared to favour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Oddly enough, some of the best things about the broadcast were the commercials.
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an oddly dressed woman
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Brenda's response was oddly reassuring.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Vincent and his wife, Elena, know all the right people here in town, oddly enough.
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Feeling oddly bereft and desolate, besieged by Dolly's incessant chatter, Luce was pleased to get back to the hotel.
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Harriet waited until the door had closed after her and flicked the button, feeling oddly apprehensive.
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He is behaving oddly , oblivious to real-world political trade-offs, at his worst rather than his best.
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Nearby they find two oddly contrasting souvenirs, both keys to priceless treasures.
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She has been feeling oddly lethargic all through the drills.
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While Timman played with impressive composure, Speelman seemed oddly distracted.
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Without benefit of notes, visual aids, gestures or humor she spoke for ninety oddly mesmerizing minutes.