The Ithaca school system is such a peculiar hybrid of cultures that it seems to have been put together to test the ingenuity of educational policy makers.

The heterotic string theories are based on a peculiar hybrid of a type I superstring and a bosonic string.

Inadvertently, Mr. Nachman thus added his own peculiar hybrid to the growing ranks of what is known in the television business as "hyphenates."

The film's musical numbers are a peculiar hybrid of Mr. John's bouncy, irrepressible pop sensibility and Mr. Rice's fastidious, remarkably joyless lyrics.

And so arrives a peculiar hybrid, the dishy biography that is also a formidable work of research.

Artemis' bridge was a peculiar hybrid.

In string theory, the heterotic string is a peculiar hybrid of a 26-dimensional bosonic string and a 10-dimensional superstring.

You can dismiss governments or put pressure on them, but the Commission is a peculiar hybrid of a legislative and administrative body.

The next section traces the traditional arguments for and against health care markets to set against the peculiar hybrid that was introduced into the NHS.

If "Tokyo Sonata," directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, is anything to go by, we could be in for some unnatural spawnings, for this is a most peculiar hybrid.