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idiosyncrasy - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • life: He also provided interesting company talking about the idiosyncrasies of canyon life.
  • language: He goes out of his way to help with their difficulties and has great patience when explaining the idiosyncrasies of the English language.
  • culture: This work contains the author's thoughts on various things from the presidency of Tony Blair to the idiosyncrasies of modern British culture.
  • spelling: Nonetheless, there are idiosyncrasies of spelling and punctuation that make the task of transcribing the letters as faithfully as possible a challenging one!
  • style: Of course not, other than that both are using the same language and have the same idiosyncrasies of style.

Converse of object

  • have: Browsers may also have idiosyncrasies which prevent certain things working.
  • know: The facilitator must know the idiosyncrasies of whatever tool they are using well.
  • explain: He goes out of his way to help with their difficulties and has great patience when explaining the idiosyncrasies of the English language.
  • display: Jo Cameron adds that graduates can learn from individual idiosyncrasies displayed on the program.

Adjective modifier

  • personal: Carol is less coy about her personal idiosyncrasies, laying bare even those that took place in later life.
  • own: Every ethnic region has its own idiosyncrasies; it is up to us to learn them.
  • little: He is now spending time getting to know his charges and all their little idiosyncrasies.
  • local: These chains have to " trade off " economies resulting from common practices against loss of sales from local idiosyncrasies.
  • other: I so wish football would stop being swayed by royal events, news events and 101 other idiosyncrasies.
  • few: Klaw, Erlanger and their immediate associates felt themselves to be kings and began to exhibit a few supposedly royal idiosyncrasies.

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