How to Use quirk in a Sentence

quirk

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  • Everyone has their little quirks.
  • This is one of the charming quirks of a team that knows and embraces its audience.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Put in the time to get to know their interests, quirks, preferences and pet peeves.
    — Pamela Furr, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The only problem is that the same quirks that make The Beef’s work family work so well aren’t easy to come by.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
  • As is the case every year, there were a few quirks and trends driving these numbers.
    — Kiri Masters, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • One of the quirks of the old stadium is that the home and visiting locker rooms are just 15 steps apart.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • Instead, this comes down to a quirk of how the data is made available on the clipboard by Windows.
    — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 8 June 2022
  • Each has its own quirks, yet all of them can make the intimate feel anthemic and vice versa.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • One old quirk in Thornton Barron found is a building that fronts the railroad tracks that run through town rather than the street.
    — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • There are some jokes based in their personal quirks, but those laughs aren’t at the actors’ expense.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • While there are some quirks to keeping this plant thriving, the vivid purple flowers are well worth the effort.
    — Molly Miller, housebeautiful.com, 31 May 2023
  • Thanks to this quirk of the draw at Cincinnati, the unseeded Williams and 10th seed Raducanu will go toe-to-toe for the first—and likely the last—time.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Starting to wonder if the things that go bump in the night are more than your house’s quirks that can be rationally explained away?
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 15 June 2023
  • And waited, learning another quirk in parts of Los Angeles, the lack of people on the street.
    — Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
  • These are the people who the film argues can afford a $1,250 meal, a strange quirk of the art—and with the high price tag, these diners bring high expectations.
    — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 18 Nov. 2022
  • With Trump, the long-term trends and the candidate-specific quirks collided.
    — Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Like the start of most long-term relationships, learning each other's quirks takes time.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The practice takes advantage of a quirk of timekeeping.
    — Robert O'Connell, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2023
  • And keep in mind that sea level rise will not unfold uniformly across US coastlines, due to quirks in the physics involved.
    — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
  • One legal quirk is that if the waitress were actually a cook, searing meat in the anonymity of a kitchen, she wouldn’t be allowed in the tip pool.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • One of the funnier quirks of the Trump era is how closely the former president and his critics in the press mirror one another.
    — Becket Adams, National Review, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Fog is more than just a surreal quirk of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • This is far from the first eyebrow-raising quirk of their relationship.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Yet maybe one reason that the tale, as appealing as it, doesn’t have much resonance is that the whole meaning of it ends up being just a quirk.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 June 2022
  • And all these places have their unique quirks and characteristics.
    — Shivani Vora, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Morning Brew tweeted about the Phillies quirk on Sept. 21, then revisited the topic as the team continued to win.
    — William Power, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But this satiric jest is the film’s only slant (a preening quirk eventually dropped).
    — Armond White, National Review, 19 Oct. 2022
  • These learnings came by chance, yet another quirk of our VUCA world.
    — Liz Guthridge, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • Good players who can’t hang near or with the most elite players on the tour and are game to learn doubles’ unique angles, quirks and strategies can earn a decent living.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 5 June 2023
  • There is one inevitable quirk in the system: Any Baby Bonds program has to set a start date that excludes anyone born before it.
    — Ashraf Khalil, ajc, 21 Aug. 2022

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