How To Use Strange In A Sentence
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If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
Goodnight Tweetheart
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So it's a little more than passing strange that Mr. Brooks clucks about Mr. Obama's "über-partisan budget" when, given the last few weeks of shrieking and wailing from the Republicans about socialism and communism, he's been the voice of moderation in the room.
Moderately Shocked
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Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.
Gravity's Rainbow
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After a day of collecting ones and fives and nickels and quarters, it strangely looked like a lot of money.
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But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens.
The (Rock) Stars Are Aligned
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The DOJ thing is pretty strange, and will probably get modified, but all I can say is how nice it is that Dems aren't all on the same page, parroting the same opinions, baaing like conservatives.
Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated)
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Related, but not directly, I have spent much time getting to know fractals, 4d geometry, and other ‘strange’ mathematical phenomena.
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There's a strangeness about the whole image, as though a story lurks untold.
The Times Literary Supplement
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But he knew he would be like a stranger to her, a strange man with a repellingly scarred face.
The Hidden Places
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Strange flashes of varicoloured, rainbow light began to appear and disappear on the path before me.
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But her own life was often stranger than any action-packed fiction plot.
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The recent Australian National Championships and Olympic swimming trials give a strange story to the world of swimming.
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There is something about rainy days that can make you feel strangely melancholic and happy at the same time.
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The bowed zither may seem strange, but is exactly what it appears to be - a violin for zitherists.
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but often saintlier than fiction.
The New Jerusalem
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The dog barked loudly at the stranger.
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It was strange, to buy a bottle of great wine for my guests and know I wouldn't drink a drop.
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By the same token, if you pick up a strange rash, you will want to see a doctor in case it really is flesh-eating bacteria.
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As she got up and moved to support him, she noticed some strange dark stains on his left shoulder, which had been hidden under the pelisse before.
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This time she must seem the forlorn victim, with no resources of sinew or cunning to save her - only the kindness of strangers.
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In ‘Mister Squishy,’ the story about the focus group, the main character, Terry Schmidt, is strewn about in this medium, a strange involution of tone and form.
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I had a strange fascination with the MGM toons when I was young, especially Droopy.
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By the time the higher elevations are reached, such strange notions as Einsteinian curved space-time and the quantum uncertainty principle, heavy meals indeed, seem not so difficult to digest.
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Strange emotions welled up inside her until she felt like she was going to explode from the pressure
C7: Chapter Five – Lost on Earth « Write Anything
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These types of changes were normally seen between complete strangers in blood, and were not usually used to indicate any form of cadency.
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Meanwhile, I will be having a final farewell party this Friday with all my buddies, climbing friends, old coworkers, old classmates and random strangers.
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But the narrative remains strange and poetic enough for it never to appear formulaic or didactic.
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Fourth, the strange reluctance he felt about abandoning Downes as Suspect Number One.
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Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat.
Cold Mountain
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The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed.
The Story of Mankind
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She tensed, hearing the strange noise again.
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However, the duck confit was cut up in cold bits and enmeshed in a strange, oily construction of mushrooms and haricots verts.
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Or, conversely, isn't the character of modern American life strangely illuminated by -- and compatible with -- that entity that is so often described as antithetical to it, the mafia?
Critical Mass
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I just didn't understand that the ricochet is the second part you can't hide what you intend, it glows in the dark once you start the path of revenge there's no way to stop the more I try to hurt you the more it hurts me strange, it seems like a character mutation though I have all the means of bringing you fuckers down
Killing the Buddha
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The crew are split up and captured by the strange enemy on a planet that luckily has an atmosphere identical to Earth 's.
The Sun
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The attention shone on her, as strangers stopped her in the street to ask about her imminent arrival.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Go-Betweens reside in a strange hinterland full of candyfloss and loneliness that hovers between critical adoration and public ignorance.
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It was a strange spectacle to see the two former enemies shaking hands and slapping each other on the back.
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He stared at the object of discourse , as one might do at a strange repulsive animal.
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The second set also starts of in a rollicky jamming way with a Stranger and a Cumberland to write home about, but then the band slows down and you get a sleepy Gloria and a communally weird Do It In The Road where "everyone" sings.
Bt.etree.org
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Summer had faded into fall, but even as September wore on Paris still baked under a strange late heat wave that showed no sign of letting up.
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His strange behavior is the talk of the town.
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The sentry guard dived into his foxhole and closely observed the stranger towards him.
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The Cologne goalkeeper signalled his potential by publicly attacking the legendary Bayern Munich Maoist Paul Breitner for his heavy drinking, smoking and gambling though not, strangely enough, for his scrofulous appearance.
Note to England's rugby players: embrace Der Aggro | Harry Pearson
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Fracas, that mother of all big floral scents, the strange, kinky Diva Tubereuse Criminelle, and the lustrously beautiful Carnal Flower.
Archive 2007-07-01
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He then seemed to move with it in a strange diagonal direction.
Calcio: A History of Italian Football
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He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island.
Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
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Some I recognized as a kind of hypertrophied raspberry and orange, but for the most part they were strange.
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
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He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" --
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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I began to consider crazy thoughts, such as whether we were in some strange power game.
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Army, 'the professors said one to another, as, hardly stopping for a moment at the stranger's entrance, they continued to' jangle 'among themselves.
A Book of Quaker Saints
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The Sub – Prior readily obeyed the first part of the Abbot’s injunction, but paused upon the second — “It is Friday, most reverend,” he said in Latin, desirous that the hint should escape, if possible, the ears of the stranger.
The Monastery
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Of course everyone knew the reason for all the strangers - those faked tickets someone had distributed.
DEATH IN FASHION
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The rancho he could not see -- for the covering interposal columns of the cacti -- but through the openings along their tops a black line was visible that had an unnatural look, and a strange film of smoke hung over the azotea!
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico
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It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
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The fire brigade said: 'It was a strange accident.
The Sun
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More alarming -- not to mention revolting -- than any revelation, which has come out thus far about Bachmann, Kennedy once commented to Democratic political adviser Bobby Baker, "You know, I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day" see endnote 54.
Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann and Migraines: Presidential Disqualifier or Sexism?
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However I did notice something, and it was something that both my wife and father both brought up, there was a strange effect that wasn't there at the World Première, something I described as a fogging or blurring during some scenes, particularly the action ones, which made it hard to follow the action.
Filmstalker: Avatar: An Xmas visit
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I find the fetishization of hairlessness strange… I wonder sometimes if it is not the result of the idealization of adolescent body types.
The Most Hairiest Man in the World? » Sociological Images
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Perhaps strangest of all, the American troops brought in their own "psyops" trucks - for psychological operations - and blared sounds that created a nightmarish duet with the mosques: old AC/DC songs, something that sounded like a sonar ping, the cavalry charge.
Archive 2004-11-01
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She felt strangely weightless and ready to drift off with the next breeze.
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Is it strange that I became known as the wildest tantivy boy that rode with the King?
The Tavern Knight
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He speculates about the personal stories of strangers in bars and offers up tales of his childhood with the ease of a trusted friend.
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Years later, by a strange quirk of fate , she found herself sitting next to him on a plane.
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He is a perfect stranger to us.
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Her expression collapsed into one of forlorn reminiscence before she continued on in her stranger’s voice.
Flowers in the Attic
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As I pressed through the thick underwood, I startled a strange-looking apparition in one of the open spaces beside the gulf, where, as shown by the profusion of plants of _vaccinium_, the blaeberries had greatly abounded in their season.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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In a strange way she seemed ennobled by the grief she had experienced.
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We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short, strove all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most.
Moll Flanders
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Delia's stepmother is dealing with strange perplexities of her own.
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E-mail also is an important way that the Net connects strangers who share personal passions.
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He then seemed to move with it in a strange diagonal direction.
Calcio: A History of Italian Football
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Pony-mads will adore it and how strange that books like this are just never but never reviewed in the mainstream press.
Fly-By-Night
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Such is a part of tire strange medley that is before and around me; and amidst them and the blue streams of smoke that are rising from the tops of these hundred "coal-pits," can be seen in distance, the green and boundless, treeless, bushless prairie; and on it, and contiguous to the piquet which encloses the village, a hundred scaffolds, on which their "dead live", as they term it.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
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Cats were slumbering noisily beneath the TV set and a smallish party of utter strangers were drinking Harp in the saloon lounge.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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An aioli aromatic with coriander seed and lemon (mayo at its most celestial) makes for a strange and interesting contrast - not to mention the fact that it is good enough to eat straight.
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He was muttering incessantly to himself, as if delighted at having found his tongue, his head swaying on his shoulders, and a strange murmur, soft, birdlike, meaningless, like sounds heard from a vast distance, coming from his wide-open mouth.
Vandover and the Brute
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One night, after sampling a strange concoction made from the rose petals collected from Croxleys Wood, Geoff encounters the beautiful Rosemary.
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There was a time when rock'n'roll and the honours system were the strangest of bedfellows.
Times, Sunday Times
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Additional info: One of my references says that this plant is no longer found on Kahoolawe, which is strange because hinahina is the island plant of Kahoolawe, as 'ilima is for Oahu and lokelani (a non-native plant, by the way) is for Maui.
Starbulletin Headlines
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It is a strange fact that Dionaea, which is one of the most beautifully adapted plants in the vegetable kingdom, should apparently be on the high-road to extinction.
Insectivorous Plants
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At night, they advised us to put on our under-bungalow lights and wait for the floorshow of ravenous and strange-looking fish gobbling up plankton just beneath us.
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Follow it past the post office, past the chipper, past the strange shop with the begonias in the window.
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So Frances Hodgson Rondel must, one way and another, have got quite an earful about Professor Shandy's strange avocation.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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I've seen too many friends who are famous who live strange lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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He stared at the strange apparition before him.
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This is far from being a work of mere trainspotting; in fact, in a strange way, it catalogues the architectural, social and economic history of modern Britain.
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Thereupon Shawahi came forward and kissing the ground before the Queen, took the hem of her garment and laid it on her head, saying, O Queen, by my claim for fosterage, be not hasty with him, more by token of thy knowledge that this poor wretch is a stranger, who hath adventured himself and suffered what none ever suffered before him, and Allah (to whom belong Might and
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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What better way to break the ice with a roomful of total strangers in a foreign country whose language you don't know?
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When this happens, we will encounter a strange blurring of the edges between virtual and true realities.
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About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death.
The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien: Book summary
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(Soundbite of kalimba) Mr. BERGMAN: And then there's another one, this is the - the one that I was just telling you about, the street sweeper tines from the Eastern Market, and this one is very sort of strange instrument, but it's not one that we use on too many songs.
NOMO: The Sonic Maelstrom Of 'Ghost Rock'
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That means Schwarzenegger's earnings from a career as a Hollywood megastar, which allowed him to forgo a salary as governor and commute by private jet to Sacramento, likely will be evenly divided with his estranged wife.
Maria Shriver files to divorce Arnold Schwarzenegger
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She was always suspicious of strangers.
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Then strangely, as we came to a fork in the road - they departed, thanking me, as you might a bus driver.
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Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows.
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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect.
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I realize it may sound strange to you.
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He is supposed to be debating to you and to fellow members of Parliament, and he should not involve strangers.
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He has endeavoured to render THE PICTURE an intelligent _Cicerone_, without being too garrulous or grandiloquous, -- but always attentive to the stranger, leading him to every remarkable object, and giving just as much description of each, as would be acceptable to persons enjoying the full use of their eyes.
Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the
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The purpose of this (to us) strange ritual was to externalise one's grief, delegate it onto a kind of exterior apparatus (ie another human being).
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Online gaming is the main route for bonding with strangers, the survey of 17,000 schoolkids found.
The Sun
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Listen! There's a strange noise in the engine.
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The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed.
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He said things he knew perfectly well he did not mean, and he was not at all ashamed of owning this strange character trait.
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Strangely, having run his fastest to get to her, Hyacinth seemed almost reluctant to knock at the door, or enter without knocking, and while he was hesitating on the doorstone her singing ceased, and she came out to see whose fleet footsteps had stirred the small stones of the pathway.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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Officers are expected to give her toxicology tests amid fears she may have been drugged by a stranger.
The Sun
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This must have been owing to her recollection of the audacious stranger in the neighbouring turret at the Fleur de Lys; but did that discomposure express displeasure?
Quentin Durward
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The portly old housekeeper used to play cicerone, but the portly old housekeeper, growing portlier and older every day, got in time quite unable to waddle up and down and pant out gasping explanations to the strangers.
The Baronet's Bride
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Beth felt strangely drawn to this gentle stranger.
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Even if you do baulk at some of the more outlandish examples of soporifics cited or quibble with a theory or two, Martin's message is strangely comforting.
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This mightn't seem that strange, but I'm definitely losing it a little.
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Hospitality - caritas - became a duty for all Christians, whether the one to whom aid was proffered or from whom it was received was a family or tribal member, or a stranger.
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Rip looked for the strange men, the keg, and the jug.
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She does strange things, talks to herself and has become abusive to her husband.
The Sun
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Why are you talking in such a strange manner?
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Later in the restaurant, as we ate hummus, baba ghanoush, wrapped grape leaves, and other Mediterranean delicacies, the four of us marveled over this strange request.
Fair Game
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It was as if, in some strange way, it was beneath his dignity to take an interest in her.
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It's a strange -- looking creature we see emerging from the pupa and abovewater's surface.
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This is all on the surface, but beneath and better than this is a kindness which leaves no stranger to a sense of loneliness, no want uncared for, and no sorrow unalleviated.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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The approached a strange formation in the side of the cliff: a large, rotund tunnel dug deep into the side of the mountain.
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Then a strange quiet descends after the Gregorian chant ‘Tantum Ergo’ as the Blessed Sacrament is laid at the altar of repose.
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You could go up to a stranger and know they were on the same wavelength.
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Then she'd meet the reality: a misty white contraption like a strange sauna facility.
Times, Sunday Times
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Synths, banjo, trumpet, and anything else found around the studio gets thrown in, creating the feeling of some sort of strange, postmodern hootenanny.
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Protagoras (337 C-D); it is only “nomos, which is a tyrant among men,” that has made the participants in the dialogue strangers to one another, since they come from different cities.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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I know you guys are expecting something in my usual strain of strange humour.
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And thrice in the time that I did go, there did be a running of feet amid the darkness; and odd whiles strange and horrid cryings in the night; so that I put a force upon my despair, and hid me; for, indeed, I had no right to lose care of my life, if there did be any chance yet that I find the Maid.
The Night Land
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Fien is no stranger to Tormey, who recruited him when he was defensive coordinator at Washington.
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This is a realistic story about two people who meet as strangers and remain that way, told with an elegant, refined grace.
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Strangely enough, I said the same thing to my wife only yesterday.
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The 63-year-old had not seen her estranged son for years until he turned up out of the blue on her doorstep.
The Sun
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Social parasites and criminals are strangers to positive beliefs. Their religion is: to do anything to serve their needs. Dr T.P.Chia
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Of anomalies of the head the first to be considered will be the anencephalous monsters who, strange to say, have been known to survive birth.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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And the music had its natural squirminess, anxiety, and strangeness.
New York Sun - All Articles
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And the strange thing is that in "Hypatia" or in the "Bride of the Nile" or in the "Stories of the Arabian Nights" the same characteristics stand out-the old Egypt has never changed.
The Egyptian and Arabian Problems
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How strange that her bracing, sometimes unpalatably extreme stance could have seeped so gently into popular culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you really love something when you will find language how fragile and limp. Text and feeling always have the estrangement.
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The sun had begun to set, making the sky and clouds a strangely ominous pinkish hue.
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Ne vous fachez iamais en table, quoy qu'il aduienne, ou bien si vous vous fachez, n'ent faites point de semblant, principalement y ayant des estrangers a table.
George Washington's Rules of Civility
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When I awoke, I was covered in strange purple hairs that poked out through my clothes and made a sound only dogs could hear.
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I just can't have a stranger roaming around my property at night.
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The sentry guard dived into his foxhole and closely observed the stranger towards him.
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Accepting drugs from a stranger in an unfamiliar place is very risky.
The Sun
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he was upstage with strangers
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They are a strange family indeed; living in a sprawling house in the greater area of Maine, this family is busting at the seams with not only children, but also every animal under the sun.
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I used the term punt in my heading, which is strange, I never use that terminology.
Note to Barry and Nick [UPDATED] - Erick’s blog - RedState
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We are dropouts from society, useless dregs who make no contribution, so it is inevitable that people will look at us strangely and with contempt.
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This is, strangely enough, an unusual example of an abstract noun being masculine in Hebrew - most of them are feminine.
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He was short for a Tran, almost Ethan's size, and wore a strange coat of archil and argent done in diamond patterns, the diamond shapes varying in size.
Mission to Moulokin
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If there is a perception that the elite end of the game has sometimes become estranged from the volunteers that drive the grassroots, Steele has vowed to bring them back together, using the prize of a home World Cup as the driving force. 2015 will offer us an opportunity in three areas.
England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele
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It may sound strange, but it's true.
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_The comedy of Wilmot successful: The wounded stranger seen at a distance: Oratory abandoned with regret: The dangers that attend being honest: A new invitation from Hector: A journey deferred by an arrest, and another accidental sight of the stranger_
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
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I had visions of quiffs and highlights and all manner of strange accoutrements being used to make me look like a complete twat.
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It was vague, intangible, appeling only to some strange, nameless sixth sense.
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I never tire of watching this strange beast that lurches like a turkey and sways its neck like a swan.
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To her annoyance the stranger did not go away.
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He says strange things a lot.
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Users can put in place screen locks and other security mechanisms to stop strangers accessing personal devices.
Times, Sunday Times
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The country here is an expanse of smoothish tilted slopes, big, empty, and lonely, and crossed (at about the middle point) by a strange narrow gut or gully, up which the railway once ran to Montauban.
The Old Front Line
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The plant has spawned human fatalities and engendered the strange fauna and flora found on the eerie headland where the derelict buildings remain.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a theme running through the magazine of crushes on gorgeous men, and mysterious romances with strange disappearing boys.
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Her mouth appeared relaxed now, though strangely inexpressive; as if she had read only part of a textbook on the art of smiling.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Cars are comfortable, avoid dangerous road crossings, avoid the danger of strangers and - not insignificantly in Scotland - they avoid the rain.
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The girls confront each other about their dead mom and their growing estrangement.
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Isn't it strange that the word ‘Angel’ is used for the baddy?
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I am walking speedily along New York's Fifth Avenue when this elegant stranger accosts me, grabs my arm in a vice-like grip and hisses, ‘Where did you get that pin?’
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Clothes are an important part of their lives because they want to look good - not freaky or weird or shouty or strange.
Times, Sunday Times
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• Le Trianon, avenue des Bains, Parc des Thermes, Allevard, +33 4 7671 9617, letrianon-allevard.frAlsace surprises the visitor, not just with the strange Germanic dialect and its colourful half-timbered gingerbread houses clustered in tiny villages surrounded by rolling vine-clad hills, but also with some of the country's finest cuisine.
Budget bourguignon: cheap eats in France
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For the most part we are strangers sharing rooms.
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Ick. Why MSNBC keeps him on is a mystery to me (and is lumped into the same mystery of why Maureen Dowd and David broder, for instance, have such an unhealthy fascination with the sexual activities of politicisn -- seriously, they're just strange, aren't they?)
Chris Matthews, On Whether MSNBC Supports Obama: "Well, It's Not Official"
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By a strange quirk of fate, she later married the first boyfriend she'd ever had.
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And since sidewinder is going to send one - I've got to get the strangely goofy birthday card out to Ian Copeland.
Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow, OW
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'Vieni -- vieni qua,' Hermione was saying, in her strange caressive, protective voice, as if she were always the elder, the mother superior.
Women in Love
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Her eccentricities get stranger by the day.
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And just then began the ugliest man to gurgle and snort, as if something unutterable in him tried to find expression; when, however, he had actually found words, behold! it was a pious, strange litany in praise of the adored and censed ass.
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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The singing part of the audition went well, she said I had a beautiful voice and made me a second soprano, which is strange because Ive been an alto my whole life, but whatever.
Skipperjbk8: hey pook...I found a Pierre!!
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She's shy around strangers.
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This is less strange than it might sound; it is rather like daydreaming, or the feeling you get when the mind wanders while reading.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stranger fastened on my arm.
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And I think that if Mr. Sidgwick had pondered the strange words of Ulysses, com 'altrui piacque, he would not have said that the preacher and prophet are lost in the poet.
Dante
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His seminal works are more than three decades old and yet his books retain a strange, contemporary vitality.
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Many wonderful, strange, kinky and explosive things have happened since last I blogged.
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And his features had a slightly strange cast, not quite those of a dalesman.
The Crystal Gryphon
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The focus here is on the ‘incredibly strange and outsider’ realm, meaning that some extraordinary obscurities have already been made available.
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It's strange how inanimate objects can resonate with different emotions depending on the situation in which they are viewed.
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Catching brown trout among seaweed is a strange experience for someone used to freshwater fishing on the mainland.
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Tough a liyyle strange those questions are no difficulty for the genuine aficionado.
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For a moment, in the joy of anticipation, a strange light illuminated his face, his lips parted as in a foretasted wonder, and he forgot even to drop the hand he had just withdrawn.
The Little City of Hope A Christmas Story
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God has prepared a city for us strange Presbyterians and for all the other foreigners God loves.
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This is a strange sub-species of free indirect discourse.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Strange are the ways of this world," Jumper chittered.
Falcon Street
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It was strange the way he could hear the wind far off before he could feel it stinging his face.
The Broken God
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Although I wasn't in the habit of talking to strangers, he didn't seem sketchy, so I walked over to the car and bent down to get to his eye level.
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Every now and then amongst the usual searches I get some strange search requests from Google appear in my stats.
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The locals clearly were not too keen to strangers and I received a less than hospitable welcome.
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Soon, it will seem uncool and very strange not to have augmented reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mere existence of these strange creatures fascinated him.
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So habituated has one become to feeling cooler in a draught that the absence of chill lends the night an unaccustomedness, the more weird in that it is unanalyzed, so that one feels definitely that one is in a strange, far country.
African Camp Fires
