6 sentences with 'peculiar'

Example sentences and phrases with the word peculiar and other words derived from it.

« The place is a peculiar combination of ecosystems: shifting coastal dunes, spring-fed marshes and dry dry dry land scrub. »
« "I am in a peculiar position," Henry Ford once confided to Reverend Marquis. "There is nothing I desire that I cannot acquire. However, I have no appetite for things that can be bought with money. »
« A peculiar aspect of the obsessive focus on the person of the king was the fact that kings often married their sisters and daughters; the idea being that if one was a god, one did not want to pollute the sacred lineage by having children with mere humans. »
« One of the peculiar things about the Roman Republic is that its rise to power was not inevitable. No Roman leader had a 'master plan' for dominating the Mediterranean world, and the Romans of 500 BC would have been surprised to see Rome ruling a gigantic territory a few centuries later. »
« An interesting and, from a contemporary perspective, somewhat peculiar phenomenon in early Christianity was the focus on relics: holy objects. »
« The cause was one of the most peculiar episodes in late medieval European history: the "Babylonian Captivity" of the popes in the 14th century. »

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