occasional in English:

There had been sporadic outbreaks of violence in the area.

that's odd!

He's always been an odd child, wearing the same stripy shirt on even days of the week.

The New Yorker attempts to reïnstate the English diaresis in words like "coöperation," "zoölogical," and "reëntry"—an odd thing to reinstate in this day and age, and hardly in cooperation with most zoology.

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that no one would have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound.

I'd like to do without commas, but 6 feels odd if it doesn't have commas.

I came to know the man who is now my husband through e-mail; from an acquaintanceship started in that odd way, before a month had passed, we found ourselves resolving to get married.

Well he looks odd on the surface ... but he's even odder on the inside. "You're really not helping me there."

Why am I the only one who dressed up? Now I feel odd!

Oliver, usually the biggest talker, was oddly silent at yesterday's meeting

It's kind of odd behavior for somebody who's about to kill herself,

What do we mean by an odd fellow? By an odd fellow a strange or peculiar man.

odd socks

the neighbors thought him very odd. If the number in the second column is odd. he's wearing odd socks.

Susan asked if I bite my toenails - what an odd question!

Waiting for Godot was voted the most significant English language play of the 20ts century, which is odd because it was originally written in French.

We see them on occasion.

If there is a suitable occasion, I'll introduce you to him.

In our lives, we have three or four occasions of showing bravery, but every day, we have the occasion to show a lack of cowardice.

You should change your job if the occasion arises.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

I'm not bothered. It's just my usual nightcap. Having someone to drink with on occasion might be nice.

We need to distinguish what a sentence could mean from what it actually does mean when used by one particular speaker on one particular occasion.

Only on one occasion the interviewee introduces a topic.

And don’t forget, flower arrangements also make the perfect gift for so many different occasions, such as birthdays, anniversaries, get will wishes or to simply say, “I love you!”

Use a brief expression of condolence, such as: "On this sad occasion we grieve with you".

The flight delay was occasioned by the need for a further security check.

On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead."

The occasion demands a cool head.

Floods, violent wind storms, droughts, killing frosts, and the problems of air pollution have all, on occasion, influenced modern society.

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.