How to use "peculiar" in a sentence

Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief Constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar difficulty

These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest

There was something peculiar in his eyes, a speculative look, but it wasn't guile

She was curious about the story out of which that creature had stepped, for she had the peculiar feeling that, in some way, it would be similar to the story of Danny's death

Killing all those people and trying to fake an accident - that was a whole lot riskier than letting the kids come back with their half-baked stories about seeing something peculiar in the mountains."

The low ceiling was covered with a spongy, pebbly, yellowish soundproofing, which gave the chamber a peculiar organic quality

She felt a peculiar pulling sensation that seemed to come from within her hand, and she stiffened in surprise.

I heard a peculiar humming sound from the pit.

I heard it give a peculiar cry, and then another of these creatures appeared in the deep shadow of the door.