How To Use Freakish In A Sentence
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Surely, something freakish would happen—a slow roller through the wickets, some fluke fly ball barely clearing the Green Monster, a sure groundout bouncing crazily around the infield—something confirming the Sox impending doom usually happened right about now.
One Season
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All his classmates find him freakish, except when they're in the gym showers together.
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It means that mourners feel especially freakish and isolated, often even unentitled to speak of their misery.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would be a mistake to dismiss the Satanic panic as a freakish aberrance, however.
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There is something freakish about the calm.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only honest information would have been that about 97 percent of the world’s relevant scientists overwhelming agree that climate change couldn’t be more real and is a genuine danger to humanity and the planet -- and that the evidence is all around us in freakish weather, rising oceans, melting arctic ice and glaciers, shifting habitats, and more.
Rebecca Solnit: Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23
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Now and again a long, black shadow would sail slowly over the scene of freakish life -- the shadow of a passing albacore or barracouta.
Kings in Exile
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freakish weather
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Genetic engineering is often seen as something freakish and hazardous, as meddling with nature.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
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Most of them look severely constipated or just plain freakish.
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His pedantic freakish oration and the inerudite suppositions of his talk made my jaw drop!
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When you're a child you always imagine that your own bodily imperfections are somehow freakish.
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This will seem very strange and freakish at first but after a few times you will get used to it and gradually come to enjoy it.
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Everyone has accepted that it was one of life's freakish accidents.
Times, Sunday Times
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the weather has been freakishly variable
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His freakish athletic versatility petrifies almost every star in three weight divisions, leaving him to take on other fighters with more skill than fame such as Cintron (32-2-1, 28 KOs), a Puerto Rican star also at a career crossroads.
Williams takes on Cintron, waits for big bouts
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Her affection for these people shines through the quaint freakishness, and I rather believe she understands precisely what she's trying to accomplish.
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The top Dublin radio station commissioned magician Keith Barry to wow the crowd of loyal listeners with his freakishly spooky illusionist abilities…
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They do not think that victory requires outlandish luck, freakish circumstances, bizarrely compliant opposition.
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The weather was freakish, alternating between blazing sun and blistering showers.
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A tall, lanky, freakish man with floppy blonde hair was trying to get passed me, so I moved out of his way and gave him a smile.
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What could only be described as a freakish deflection not only took it the six yards to Dida's goal, but right in the bottom corner, giving the Brazilian no chance of keeping it out.
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The freakishness of their own appearance seemed entirely appropriate.
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Of course, it turned freakishly sunny, pumping the contrast between interior and exterior light too high.
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Hello!" she rasps, teeth bared and limbs freakishly splaying.
I Don't Believe in Outer Space – review
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I lump the following together when I use the term accessibility: ease of install, support for low end machines, easy game WoW is freakishly easy- if you can't level up, and level up fast, in WoW, give up computer games as a hobby, clean and easy to use interface, easy to find something to do inside the game.
The Golden 1M: World of Warcraft
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Uské's freakishness itself is still an oddity that nags one's curiosity, no matter how repellant he is.
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It is a warm spring night, with a hint of the Santa Anas in the air, and the least likely place in Los Angeles to experience a pastoral groove is probably the outside seating area at Lukshon, in the alleyway behind the Helms Bakery complex, settled around a table, waiting for the wine dude to return with a freakishly obscure bottle of listan negra, which is a kind of high-acid Canary Islands beaujolais.
Lukshon: The Jonathan Gold Review
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In an age where the term kids movie is synonymous with explosions, poop humor and freakish hyperactivity Where The Wild Things Are takes its own sweet time establishing an environment and group of characters that reverberate with wild rumpus energy one moment and revel in a quiet sunset the next.
Twitch
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Look at the havoc that has been wreaked by unusually strong storms and freakish weather events all over the globe in recent years.
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They're called upon to seamlessly morph from domestic, to squire, to ingénue, to dragoman, to the overtly freakish.
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Kuroda respects her and likes her, so her precocity is never a joke or freakish.
Sexy Voice and Robo MMF: Touch Blue Sky
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The new autumn designs are in the shops now, and for every beautifully cut coat, there is a freakish nightmare, covered in zips and vividly-dyed fur.
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It tends a little too much towards freakishness, but it's a well-selected inclusion in this context.
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But still, I usually like to lounge about in a chaise longue or something while everyone else is doing cannonballs and jackknives and freakish flips off the diving board.
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It's a pretty enough building made special by its literary association, its laconic guides and the resident cats with their freakish six- or seven-toed feet.
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Lamb's defects were his qualities, and nature drove them inward, concentrating, fortifying, intensifying them; to a not wholly normal or healthy brain, freakish and without consecution, adding a stammering tongue which could not speak evenly, and had to do its share, as the brain did, 'by fits.'
Figures of Several Centuries
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Her fictional worlds, like those of her best-selling coevals Wally Lamb and Khaled Hosseini, are marked by trauma, persecution and suffering, relieved only intermittently by freakish moments of well-being.
The Reigning Queen of Victim Lit
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This freakish weather is proof that global warming is really happening.
The Sun
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The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
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At one point Rachel and Aiden have a freakish incident with a herd of malicious deer, and later there is reference to antlers that didn't seem to have any explanation.
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It glows a freakish, supernatural, luminous blue, for reasons none of the ice obsessives can explain to me.
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Sometimes I walk along the street and in a flash there's an image in my mind of a disgusting client, a freakish moment, an episode I want to push away to the back of my head, far out of sight.
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Jeanette's maternity gear freakishly ugly, several `frocks' even had crocheted inserts.
AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
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But, unless he has some freakishly clever tricks up his sleeve, I think it would strain plausibility if a high-profile politician was able to put tens or hundreds of hours into a secret life without at least one or two close confidantes finding out.
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The freakish weather is more than a blip.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, if you write a column that tries not to shy from the freakish and bizarre, what could be freakier or more bizarre than the opening of a new bookstore?
New Steps for Book Lovers
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There was a red ball of fire clinging to her timbers just below the rail amid-ships, and even as we watched there was a climbing lick of flame - and over to the right, by some freakish chance, the ketch had been hit, too: there was a fire on her deck, and she was slewing round at anchor.
The Sky Writer
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Most of the story is the trial and all the boring nitty details therein - the only bright spot is the freakish D.A.
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But still, I usually like to lounge about in a chaise lounge or something while everyone else is doing cannonballs and jackknives and freakish flips off the diving board.
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The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc.
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Worn with drop-crotch jeans, a fedora, striped socks, a print blouse, oversized reading glasses, crocheted slippers, layers of crystals and Indian beads and a red Mongolian fur, the Birkin becomes an extension of her, authentic and "freakish" and proud of it.
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Tall, muscular, almost freakishly strong in the arms, he developed into a murderous but essentially orthodox batsman and a slow-medium bowler with a textbook side-on action.
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The egotistical Bravo is cursed with a comically unsymmetrical structure: a freakishly long torso on top of Smurf-sized legs.
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Of course, a winning moniker need not be something freakish.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would be a mistake to dismiss the Satanic panic as a freakish aberrance, however.
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Everyone seems to be taking advantage of the freakish sunshine
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This has not been a freakish winter for weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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A freakish ventriloquist dummy with the face and voice of a small child told us where to go.
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Apparently Mark Wahlberg, Tilda Swinton and Lily Allen all have third nipples, and they're not alone: up to six percent of people have some form of polymastia (latin for freakish extra boobs), ranging from a relatively innocuous nubbin to a fully-formed, fully-functional breast.
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Are you saying it is somehow freakish to want to stay single?
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But Jeff's injury was more freakish, as he was hit in the face with a ball while squaring up for a bunt.
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There's something sideshow freakish about these supersmall paintings.
What is it? (Who is it?)
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For me he looks freakish, which is worrying because he just doesnt have the face for a leading role?
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Fine, but I'm not going to overlook the fact that the film is full of all these creative liberties or freakish coincidences - call them what you may.
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At first hand it was a testament to the marvels of medical science; botched experiments and bad reactions of the recent kind are an extreme, almost freakish, rarity.
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That freakish and infamous incident has become known as the Bite Fight.
The Sun
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It was freakish to say the least, and even lost me a few readers in the process - but at the same time, this stunt saw the site rapidly acquiring a whole host of new readers who found the whole caper hilarious.
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Arguably, the Streak is more of a freakishly large smartphone than a tablet.
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For those freakish friends of yours without e-mail, follow up with a printed invite.
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My work clothes don't disguise my freakish appearance here.
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Instead of madness, scandal, loneliness or addiction, his long life from all outward appearances has been characterized by a normality that is freakish by the standards of his peers.
A Great Living Poet's Rare Art of Reticence
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That freakish and infamous incident has become known as the Bite Fight.
The Sun
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And though I didn't look too long - I'm a shifty character whose eyes can't stay in one spot for very long - I noticed that his bluey eyes freakishly matched the lovely blue of his team shirt…
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Come dressed in a classy yet flamboyant style, we're after freakish glamour.
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He needn't; in this freakish expression of our overlordship, we already are.
Wildlife Without Life
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I'm never one to pass up a reasonably priced piece of art involving anything vaguely freakish or circusy.
Archive 2003-11-01
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By the time I got there in the second half of the twentieth century, Coopers was a bizarre battleground; a freakish blend of public school-style tradition and modern yobbery.
Fathers & Sons
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Put on the soppiest song you know and think how freakish it is that those lyrics could have just SO been written for the two of you and you cry your little eyes out and every inch of you aches to be in their arms.
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The tabloid fashionable retreat to secret though well-photographed paradisical islands, and are increasingly replaced by the obese, the freakish and the kidnapped until the last sip of beer has dried in Mom's throat and apparent though unforeseen reality returns to lower expectations even further.
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They are so freakish that no one in their right mind would ever associate with them outside of their little incestuous group, anyway.
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Freakish weather conditions have caused massive traffic hold-ups in the area.
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She gave her thoughts on a few of the tops, which were actually in line with my own thoughts, but pointed out that the eight kind of bunched up around my freakishly large hips, and maybe I'd want a ten on top too.
Ana-ng Diary Entry
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If a strain proved unpredictably freakish, then we could be months into a pandemic before a vaccine was available.
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Yeah, it was kind of a freakish accident over on the coast when they were over there.
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The sophistication of the modern game works against freakish solo domination.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who aren't openly contemptuous often dismiss it as hilariously freakish.
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Even if the pedestrian in the crosswalk is freakishly agile.
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Fortunately the time was already past when protoplast patients were looked upon as something mildly freakish and to be pitied.
Man Made
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Others suggest a less sinister theory, arguing that the continent's torrential summer season is down to a completely natural and not entirely unexpected event: freakishly unseasonable weather.
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Katie, don't be to hard on American girls... and maybe we can do the crissy crossy thing with the legs because we started doing it as a toddler and developped this freakish anatomical monstruosity, like chinese gymnasts?
Jolie, jolie July 4
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I have seen drivers behind the wheels of steamrollers and backhoes, working with freakish intensity, doing the bidding of a boozemaster who had dangled twelve-packs before them.
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Temperatures are not rising evenly, but rather we are going to be subjected to increasingly freakish weather, like this summer's unbearable heat waves.
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Frankly, we hope it's the latter (we miss you Jo!), but if it's the former, this doc should prove freakishly fascinating.
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Cantus paused mid-step, his eyes on the freakish beast that was harnessed to the cart.
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There are people out there who have seen their dwellings and possessions washed away on a vast, fast moving wall of water, who have lost all they owned to a freakish event of nature.
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a freakish combination of styles
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Finally they all culminate with a freakish act of the meteorological variety.
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The show displayed six "fat strippers," scantily clothed to better assert their freakishness.
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A freakish period of relatively warm weather had melted most of the ice and snow on the ground, although patches remained.
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a freakish extra toe
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In Switzerland, itwas mid-June when the freakishly bad weather began — "an almost perpetualrain, " Mary recalled, with terrific thunderstorms rippling back and forthacross the lake.
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They have every right to believe close investigation will establish the integrity of the system and prove the incident was truly freakish in nature.
