How To Use Strangely In A Sentence
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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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Strangely Firefox won't break a word, and so normal text wraps itself, but the moment a long winded URL goes in, it sticks out at the side [so there's a horizontal scroll bar].
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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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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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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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She felt strangely weightless and ready to drift off with the next breeze.
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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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The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed.
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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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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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Strangely enough, I said the same thing to my wife only yesterday.
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The sun had begun to set, making the sky and clouds a strangely ominous pinkish hue.
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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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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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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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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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And yet their eyes, their lips, a certain shy grin or quizzical cant of an eyebrow, look strangely familiar.
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Strangely, the wholesale booksellers who normally stock second-hand copies of the same are falling short to meet students' demand.
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They also remain strangely more interested in keeping America safe from the terrorists we already have in custody than in providing solutions on how to capture and kill more.
Scott Payne: Pledge to America Fails National Security Test
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All right, first of all, I've been reading your columns and you're strangely optimistic this year and that in and of itself can hex the Red Sox as we know.
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Constitution, like Topsy, was not made but "growed," and that which grows is never logically perfect; it is like an old tree, strangely gnarled, with countless abrasions and mutilations, and sometimes even curious grafts.
Without Prejudice
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The room smelt of dust and the stale air was strangely warm.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strangely, these two movies feature the same actor, Kate Beckinsale, and they both involve vampires and werewolves.
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As we filled our pockets greedily, the family playing cricket in the wind looked at us strangely.
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And strangely, deep in a dusty fold of my cerebral cortex, something stirred.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strangely, the films were shot both from the cowcatchers and from other locations on the train.
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But then the flames drowned out the rest, and Raspa was engulfed in flames that stretched up and spluttered sparks like shooting stars into the velvety black, strangely beautiful night sky.
Bubble in the Bathtub
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Witnesses who thought they were acting strangely alerted police.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are rightly seen as probingly sculptural, but one at least is open to a strangely anthropoid, romantic interpretation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although a keyboard shortcut is strangely not given for Underline, the standard shortcut does work: Ctrl + U.
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2009 » January
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Arthur had made a fantastic "rockery" of skulls and shanks and ribs, and filled it in with earth, enough to furnish growth for trailing nasturtiums, whose bright red and yellow blossoms were strangely at variance with their sombre setting.
The Second Chance
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The self-willed semicoma she fell into at the start of her shift—which lasted through every shopping item she swiped and every receipt she tore out of the till—suddenly left her and she’d felt strangely alive.
The Redleys
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It tasted tangy and strangely sweet, like butterscotch, and caused my normally reserved mother to whisper quiet ululations as she picked at it with her spoon.
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They looked good but tasted strangely bland.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was lovely, but strangely characterless, like a classical sculpture on a plinth.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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This has all the usual features one might expect in a cave - hundreds of stalagmites, stalactites and even helictites (strangely twisted stalactites).
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He smiled gently and touched her cheek in a strangely intimate gesture.
CONFESSIONAL
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The audience are strangely subdued, clapping politely after each song.
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To anyone used to cooking their own Indian food using fresh spices, such flavours are strangely mute with no individual spice or flavour discernible.
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Christ, whom they strangely suppose to have been a mere apocalyptist, one of the many Messiahs or Mahdis who arose at this period in
The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
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Robyn waited for him to break the spell of this wonderful, strangely companionable silence.
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Strangely I must admit I am urged to claim that it is the martian manhunter who can look like anyone.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - A peak at tomorrows “comic”
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Strangely, it's as if the normal courtesies which one would extend to another in face to face conversation do not apply in telephonic conversation.
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She raised a finger to her lips and traced them, strangely she could taste the sour but sweet taste still there.
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As Sammy's, the place is still a warehouse-like box, with a strangely skin-like material decorating outdoor areas and an identical volleyball setup.
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Observing this, ‘It was an old song, old as the breed itself [and it was] vested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred.’
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Tom Byam Shaw's Ariel may swing on a trapeze from time to time but his speech – at first strangely elongated, then gabbled – is earthbound and he trips around the stage as if he were an obliging ballet student rather than a sharp-edged sprite.
Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review
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In that book Gross delivered some fine moral judgments and made a scholarly study into a strangely moving elegy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thought remains imminent - just below perception, and bubbles up in strangely symbolic dreams and eruptions of irrationality in your everyday life like cryptic, confusing posts on a weblog.
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And let the last word quoted here be one of Elizabeth's own, illustrative of her strangely mingled temperament of queenliness and insolence.
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It's a strangely pervasive attitude.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would be the easiest folly in the world to fall in love with her: there is such a sweet babylike roundness about her face and figure; the delicate dark rings of hair lie so charmingly about her ears and neck; her great dark eyes with their long eye-lashes touch one so strangely, as if an imprisoned frisky sprite looked out of them.
Adam Bede
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There was a silence of some seconds, and his yellow ferine gaze met hers strangely.
Wylder's Hand
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The band have performed the difficult trick of writing music that seems both strangely familiar and shiny and new.
Times, Sunday Times
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The surprise of the Lord Keeper was scarcely less unpleasing at the duplication of the expected arrival; his mind misgave him strangely.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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This was a strangely subdued performance from Palace.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most reports of the now public autopsy results sound a strangely triumphal note.
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She seems most happy when talking in business jargon, making her conversation blunt and unnuanced, and is strangely unemotional.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is something strangely mesmerising about a snake-charmer's snake but, at the end of the day, you realise it is just another cheap trick.
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He found her lying with a cold compress on her forehead, the pupils of her eyes strangely dilated.
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Tina's been acting very strangely lately.
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The term bufflehead refers to the bird's strangely bulbous head shape.
Rare birds flock to British shores in record numbers
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Colleen was standing near the door, smiling strangely, trying to pop the cork on a bottle of Merlot.
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Yet in a play that explores spiritual emptiness, the sense of absence is strangely appropriate.
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And with a maddening clutch about his heart he saw again the tragic searching in her eyes when she had said, "Then you have known me long, your Grace," and afterwards, so soft and strangely slow, "Then you might have been one of those who came to my birthnight feast, and saw my life begin.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
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If high politics often seems strangely apolitical, everyday life is extraordinarily politicised.
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In this, strangely, it resembles the derided Clinton bill, with its mandate on all employers to cover their workers.
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The Conservatives seem strangely lacking in self-knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then he noticed Andrew acting strangely, grinning and waving, talking gibberish to himself and fidgeting.
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So although I find the term MILF is an objectification that the feminist in me finds totally offensive, I'll admit if the term was ever thrown at me, I'd see it strangely as a much-needed compliment.
Got MILF?
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Strangely this failure to minute discussions was also mentioned in the Hinduja Report.
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Fear gripped her in icy clutches despite the heat, and then, strangely, it ran down her skin in cold waves like snowmelt down a majestic mountain.
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Off they come, as does my gray suit, which is nothing special but seems strangely fraudulent here.
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Does looking at these pages make you feel strangely tranquil?
Times, Sunday Times
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His pictures glow strangely and have an almost eerie feel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strangely, all the people standing around me on Tuesday were gazing in wonder.
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Her large grin and knotted black curls were, strangely enough, more memorable.
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The journey was short and fast, but strangely uncomfortable.
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The faintly bowed front has a look that is now familiar and strangely oldfashioned.
Times, Sunday Times
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Diana had often dreamed of the City of London as the seat of magic; and taking the City's contempt for authorcraft and the intangible as, from its point of view, justly founded, she had mixed her dream strangely with an ancient notion of the City's probity.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete
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The modern world takes a strangely ambiguous position on violence.
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His descriptions are often quite pedestrian and sometimes strangely inept.
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She has a strong, clear and strangely seductive voice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strangely, the wholesale booksellers who normally stock second-hand copies of the same are falling short to meet students' demand.
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This is because a strangely named religious institution was at the heart of the scandal.
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The house, usually bustling with activity, was strangely silent.
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His lips trembled, and he felt strangely compelled to shout a defiant slogan.
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Thus, to dismiss writer-director Darren Aronofsky's hyper-ambitious third feature The Fountain - a heady fusion of science fiction, metaphysics and a melodramatic quest for immortality both romantic and spiritual - for simply believing in its own sentimental grandiloquence is to deny one of the most exquisite and strangely moving trips to the multiplex this year.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.
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Never quite abstract, never entirely candid, always at a tangent to the world, Hodgkin is a strangely opaque painter.
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It seems they have a strangely warped sense of what they think is funny as well.
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The Melbourne Writers Centre is dominated by women who will only tolerate strangely docile feminised men, who build towards an androgyny and collaborate in a general ‘dumbing down’ of the male.
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This was a strangely subdued performance from Palace.
Times, Sunday Times
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a strangely grotesque object, that, in the semi-darkness, somewhat resembled a human figure, but proved to be the tarnished uniform worn by the old officer -- coatee, helmet, sword and belts gorgeous with ornamentation, a pair of pistols with silver butts, and a small flag of faded silk and gilt stuff were grouped over a gold embroidered saddle and tarnished shabrack of Indian work.
The Dark House A Knot Unravelled
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The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye?
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He seems strangely impervious to the damage the row has done to his image.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's been acting strangely ever since his Mom died.
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His account shows how race was a strangely literal category of analysis at the time.
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A dark, strangely amorphous shadow filled the room.
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Sex and the City was a great series, with a lot to say about today's apparently liberating, but strangely stifling society.
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Despite its context, this book is strangely ahistorical.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The report is strangely silent on this issue.
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On a walk, at the theatre, in a bus, at a restaurant or a roadside joint, or even when a stranger, who is given a lift by you, rides on the pillion, people are strangely silent.
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This plastic behaves strangely under extreme heat or cold.
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When the end of diesel-hydraulics was announced, the ‘Westerns’ strangely were given an extended lease of life because the policy was to eliminate the less efficient MAN engined fleets first and then the ‘Warships’ followed by the ‘Hymeks’.
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Beneath one of these lay stretched something of a grey colour, which, as it drew itself together, exhibited the figure of a man sheathed in armour, but strangely accoutred, and in a manner so bizarre, as to indicate some of the wild fancies peculiar to the knights of that period.
Castle Dangerous
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It all takes on a strangely peaceful air as the sun sets and the shadows lengthen, with the only sound the scratchy hiss of crickets.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the Christian, the above recitation sounds strangely familiar.
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The batter itself, thinly spread, cooked to almost crispiness and folded in a square, was at first strangely sweet.
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Strangely, I just realized I kind of need an eeeeee engagement wedding doot doot doot sort of LiveJournal icon, but I'm too finicky to delete the current 15 I'm allowed to have.
Featured on Pop Candy...systems engage!
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And isn't it strangely coincidental that Scotland Yard were involved in all this, at this particular time?
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The pork cutlets also looked good, although the shashlik I ordered was strangely cold.
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Has a friend or family member been acting strangely?
The Sun
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Whenever there was a full moon he would start behaving strangely.
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I am strangely drawn to a scungy flophouse which, as the night advances, turns out be a brothel.
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She ran over to the stereo and quickly hit the Next button, ending the strangely prophetical tune.
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Even the grumbling from the grandstands seemed strangely unanimated.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ultimately, he is strangely apolitical, incapable of transcending the limits of the entertainment industry.
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It was a strangely subdued build-up to a fixture that has not been short of controversy, unseemly spats and acrimony in recent seasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next morning the beautiful French landscape, with its fat cows and drudging peasants, was strangely quiet.
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Even had we, however, a perfect and trustworthy transcript of Shakespeare's original sketch for this play, there can be little doubt that the rough draught would still prove almost as different from the final masterpiece as is the soiled and ragged canvas now before us, on which we trace the outline of figures so strangely disfigured, made subject to such rude extremities of defacement and defeature.
A Study of Shakespeare
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Waking up in a bed, in a room, was strangely silent; no birds, no chickarees, no creek rushing by.
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Strangely, too, he had the sense that the patient, Herod—and from where did such a name originate, or was it chosen as some bleak joke?
The Whisperers
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The house looked strangely familiar, though she knew she'd never been there before.
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This compilation sounds like nothing else and proves to be strangely hypnotic and fascinating.
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In this regard we in our time are strangely unenlightened.
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But the second half was a strangely subdued affair.
The Sun
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Stormfront has become a bridge to the mainstream, where controversial comments strangely mirror the rhetoric of avowed racists.
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Nor was the thought that he alone might hold the key to the mystery the sole component in his strangely elated state.
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But it seems to us that some of the wishes are strangely coincidental with Microsoft's own wishes.
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Whenever he closed his eyes, his mind conjured up a picture of the grim witch-doctoress, so strangely named the Bee, and the sound of her evil-omened words as he had heard them that afternoon.
Black Heart and White Heart
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In a roaring but strangely squeakily toned mumble of utter nonsensical gibberish, the round manchild asked me something I can only assume was about how my shopping went, to which I could think of no other reply except, "Fine, and you," before I loaded the conveyor belt with my few items that were to be sent frightfully into this employee's clumsily oversized hands.
One Cent Baby
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Its childish simplicity, with cheap cha-cha beatbox rhythm and wobbly guitar, is both disarming and strangely poignant.
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The work is filled with other puzzles - a desert landscape melds into a snowscape, which in turn can be seen as a strangely stretched image of a contemporary Sphinx-like woman.
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She was always strangely content to focus on her job, never talking about her personal life.
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If Albion fans were left debating whether Hodgson's switch to 4-4-2 leaves his side defensively vulnerable, their manager rued his decision not to withdraw the strangely out of sorts Odemwingie.
Sunderland salvage draw with West Bromwich to calm dissenters
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Strangely, none of the people who should have been there were there, but were instead replaced by figments of my imagination.
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Strangely enough, the petrol companies are not keen for their highly profitable world to change.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strangely enough, you will automatically wake up after this length of time.
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The valley that had been echoing with battle cries, shouted orders and loud curses fell strangely silent.
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Yet the Longleat story was also strangely subdued.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strangely, though, none of his tribulations make one feel sorry for him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet the Longleat story was also strangely subdued.
Times, Sunday Times
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Users tell me that your teeth feel strangely loose afterwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn’t mean to be pimping, but the idea of blinging out the site and wearing some crazy pimp hats sounds strangely appealing.
More on the mysterious Grey’s Anatomy geography | Seattle Metblogs
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For a group that had been described as reclusive, the Touch had been strangely willing to endure scrutiny by a total stranger.
Blood Test
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But there is a problem with entering such a comfort zone - yes, she could do this in her sleep, and sometimes this has a strangely somnolent effect on the reader.
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But our political discourse seems strangely complacent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Westminster politicians, meanwhile, seem strangely reticent.
Times, Sunday Times
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In spite of the opening and closing of doors, the hasty messengers, the ringing of bells and the perpetual clitter-clack of recording implements, Graham felt isolated, strangely inactive, inoperative.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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It's probably just as well that she waited, because there are times during her strangely shaped career when she might have ruined it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I still feel like upchucking, but I'm listening to the Katy Rose album and strangely it's making me feel better.
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When I saw the painting, strangely executed on the upper glass panes of a door, I was spellbound.
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At the Palace Hotel, the consummation of a happy romance, strangely connected with the ill-fated Caspar, is about to be attained.
THE PLAGUE SHIP
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Even those who merely dallied with the legend found themselves strangely affected.
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Hollywood was strangely unsentimental about its own history: costumes that would now be considered sacrosanct were frequently cut up and used to mop floors.
Times, Sunday Times
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I looked at him, though still on the floor, his eyes were gleaming strangely with pride and amazement.
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It was an expensive and strangely obscure institution, named for its syphilitic Whig founder, but we often called it, with what we considered a certain panache, the Mediocre University at New York City.
Excerpt: The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
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It was mostly a number of the lecturers that refused to believe the notice, strangely enough.
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The audience are strangely subdued, clapping politely after each song.
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My animals would behave strangely; electric lights would flicker and flash.
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Yet the Longleat story was also strangely subdued.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strangely, the song calmed people down and stopped them from running too far.
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The atmosphere was strangely subdued.
Times, Sunday Times
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Put you nose right up to the pine tree trunk, inhale deeply, and the resinously woody, strangely cool aroma that you would get would be that of Agraria Balsam.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Strangely, he only wanted to buy two bulging bags full of oranges.
The Sun
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But our political discourse seems strangely complacent.
Times, Sunday Times
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At that time it was noticed that the defendant was behaving strangely, said the prosecution.
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It may be a celestial object behaving strangely.
The Sun
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It even comes with unique packaging, strangely wrapped in a cardboard slip case and inner artwork that resembles a little starship.
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It was all strangely non-sexual really but heaps of fun.
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The toy appeared strangely incongruous, almost an antique among the plastic playthings that littered the floor.
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It was a very strange sensation but once you got used to it, strangely pleasant. immy was less enamoured so swapped feet for hands and had a lovely time.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
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I swallowed and read the title placard, strangely grateful that I was the only one standing here at the moment.
Brush of Darkness
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Thus rather strangely, the potential arbiter of morality is always the individual, but only when seen in his entire complexity.
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They showed far more attacking intent than a strangely subdued Everton.
The Sun
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Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote "In this strangely flat era of" diversity, "she was the rarest of birds, an exotic creature who rose each morning to become the sun around whom thousands of lives revolved.
Jessica Mitford (1917 - 1996)
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But you clearly believe, bizarrely, that the 'googly' is something which equalizes the field - when it is the 'googly' that in fact disguises a simple question in condensed, oblique language, and therefore is only a further advantage thrust at the well-prepared girl or boy who has had such strangely codified questions fired at them for months, who know 'googlies.'
What did the Romans wear under their togas?
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The battle scenes are also strangely unexciting.
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But that which had interested us most along our line of travel was the trees without a sign of leaves or blossoms, since with us the verdure is perennial; and the sight of shrubs or bushes, or even lofty trees, standing out bare of foliage or flower, struck us very strangely.
Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen
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He stretched his bow, loosed the arrow, and was rewarded by a gasp and a groan strangely commingled.
CHAPTER XVIII
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Strangely, although he had looked perfectly unharmed and very dashing while he'd been fighting, his tunic now had rips and tears all over it and his face had dirt marks all over it as if he had been struggling to win a losing battle.
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Mary was used to the expensiveness of Mrs. O'Callahan, but here was a new kind of expensiveness, subtle and compelling, strangely unconscious.
King Coal : a Novel
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Elaine was now chatting happily with Francis, and Bernice had learnt more about the strangely anachronistic civilization of Arcadia.
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But the second half was a strangely subdued affair.
The Sun
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She'd felt strangely vulnerable, half afraid, overcome by a mass of conflicting emotions.
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His music, instead of advancing, regressed; the songs became strangely lethargic; they featured a pumping harmonium but very little harmony.
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If you're ever honeymooning in a foreign land, odds are strangely good that you'll meet other honeymooners who live remarkably close by.
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Yet strangely it has no effective role in treating the most common type of anaemia to affect hospital inpatients.
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There was also caught in this lake a large species of fish called pirarucu, which, strangely enough, found it possible to exist in spite of alligators.
Martin Rattler
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John's been acting very strangely lately.
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Even his children found him strangely distant and impersonal.
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I was horrified, and yet strangely hypnotized by Shatner's little jello jiggler dance while Jackson was singing.
Wednesday YouTube: Shatner Sings "Common People"
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It's a rather chirpy little guitar-pop song with a melody that is strangely reminiscent of the Postman Pat theme tune.
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It was one of those mornings steeped in dewy freshness, when distant sounds and sights are brought supernaturally near, when lights are strangely bright, and shadows transparent, and the very mountains look more awake than usual.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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It is strangely unclassifiable television - a caustically comic, surreptitiously sudsy thriller that has alienated a whole tranche of strait-laced Americans and so delighted many more.
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His voice had a strangely familiar ring.
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LONDON – Eat My Handbag, Bitch! is the name of a vintage clothing shop in London's newly trendified East End. English cheekiness of this genre would normally convulse me with mirth, but I find I am strangely unamused.
My Tour of London: Classic Drag, Chien , C-s
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Yet the sun was reflected, whitely, strangely, from myriad surfaces, as if the lush green of May was mostly moisture, and ephemeral.
THE TATTOOED GIRL
