odd sock
Frequency: 5.51.2 per million words
a single sock whose matching partner has been lost
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Examples (10)
- He wore odd socks, one red and one yellow.
- I always seem to have an odd sock left over after doing the laundry.
- She found an odd sock under the bed and wondered where its partner was.
- Don't go to school wearing odd socks!
- The drawer was full of odd socks that didn't match anything.
- He didn't notice he was wearing odd socks until he got to the office.
- There's a basket in the laundry room specifically for odd socks.
- Is it fashionable now to wear odd socks on purpose?
- I've got a whole collection of odd socks because the washing machine seems to eat them.
- Finding the matching partner to an odd sock feels like a small victory.