ODDS in a Sentence
Learn ODDS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
230 example sentences for ODDS, such as:
1. She made a cushion out of odd bits of material.
2. The odds are enormously against your finding it.
3. I find it odd that she takes so long to do that job.
4. The odds are enormous against its being coincidence.
5. The odds are that he will commit the same crime again.
2. The odds are enormously against your finding it.
3. I find it odd that she takes so long to do that job.
4. The odds are enormous against its being coincidence.
5. The odds are that he will commit the same crime again.
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Meanings and Examples of ODDS
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odds
n. the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring
n. the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another
Classic Sentence: (197 in 14 pages)
1 I believe the stamina has been bred out of them, and when the emergency arises I don't believe they can run against odds.
2 But he seemed totally unaware of his appearance, or unconcerned about it, and had the manner of one who asks no odds from any man.
3 The mills were the tangible evidence of what she had done, unaided and against great odds, and she was proud of them and of herself.
4 But, as before hinted, for some time there was a continual fetching and carrying on board of divers odds and ends of things, both large and small.
5 Now, by all odds, the most ancient extant portrait anyways purporting to be the whale's, is to be found in the famous cavern-pagoda of Elephanta, in India.
6 Huggins's is far better than theirs; but, by great odds, Beale's is the best.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
7 There were many such dangers, in which the odds were all against them.
8 There was the delirium that encounters despair and death, and is heedless and blind to the odds.
9 And a scatter of odds and ends, like Cobbet of Cobbs Corner, retired, it was understood, on a pension from a tea plantation.
10 She looked up for a moment, her hair all odds and ends.
11 The odds are enormously against your finding it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
Context Highlight In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
12 But we hold several threads in our hands, and the odds are that one or other of them guides us to the truth.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
Context Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
13 He has always, however, been a prime favourite with the racing public, and has never yet disappointed them, so that even at those odds enormous sums of money have been laid upon him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
Context Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
14 The odds are enormous against its being coincidence.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
Context Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
15 Huck had slept there; he had just breakfasted upon some stolen odds and ends of food, and was lying off, now, in comfort, with his pipe.
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 If you drive a car all your life, the odds are that you'll have an accident at some point.
2 The odds are that he will commit the same crime again.
3 She put in some clothes, odds and ends, and make-up.
4 He's moved most of his stuff; there are just a few odds and ends left.
5 Bookmakers have now slashed his odds from 400/1 to 28/1.
6 Though the odds against their survival seemed insuperable, the Apollo 13 astronauts reached earth safely.
7 The libertarian was always at odds with the conversations.
8 There may be the odd flurry of snow over the hills tonight.
9 Charles was an odd character whom Kelly had never really taken to.
10 Fay's always making excuses for her husband's odd behavior.
11 She sat silently, flinging the odd word into the conversation from time to time.
12 I find him really odd - I can't figure him out at all.
13 I find it odd that she takes so long to do that job.
14 Guess which number of the following sequence is the odd one out.
15 She made a cushion out of odd bits of material.