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US
/ˈkwɝk/
]
[ UK /kwˈɜːk/ ]
[ UK /kwˈɜːk/ ]
NOUN
- a narrow groove beside a beading
- a strange attitude or habit
VERB
-
twist or curve abruptly
She quirked her head in a peculiar way
How To Use quirk In A Sentence
- Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
- The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
- What about the gorgeous symmetry of a well executed hexadecagon, or the quirky lurch of the isotoxal decagram. Cheeseburger Gothic » The Ladies Blue Room. Or something.
- Years later, by a strange quirk of fate , she found herself sitting next to him on a plane.
- They are a quirky and unusual way to display flowers. Times, Sunday Times
- Yet had Jeffrey Curtain kept at scrivening for twoscore years he could not have put a quirk into one of his stories weirder than the quirk that came into his own life. Tales of the Jazz Age
- She put her hands on her hips, a slight quirk in her lips.
- The laws of gravity, optics, and acceleration represent averages, not the quirky behavior of each single nanoparticle.
- Romance is the key with quirky touches including circular beds and exotic chandeliers. The Sun
- The quirky documentary strand returns with another typically offbeat film. Times, Sunday Times