How to Use strange in a Sentence

strange

adjective
  • The language was strange to me.
  • He gave me a strange look.
  • Children are taught not to talk to strange people.
  • The strange thing is that nobody saw him enter or leave the building.
  • Does his behavior seem strange to you?
  • It's strange that nobody told me about this before.
  • That's strange. He was here a minute ago.
  • That is one of the strangest creatures I have ever seen.
  • Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction.
  • Strange as it may seem, I don't like walking barefoot on the grass.
  • Getting an email with a QR code is not the strangest thing in the world.
    Jonathan Fischbein, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • That said, the fit is a little strange through the crotch, our tester notes.
    Sara Gaynes Levy, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Speech – The person’s speech comes out slurred or strange.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2023
  • My father-in-law has the strange habit of flushing the toilet 10 times, and so on.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • And again, my face is strange, but that’s just who the character is.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
  • This led the team to believe that there was something strange about the color.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Brynn is forced to clean up the havoc of the strange creature which has wreaked chaos across her town.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
  • For me, my faith has gotten me through some pretty strange times.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In this respect, the Ganges’ pollution is a strange mark of success.
    Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • What's so strange about how Google is handling this bug is that the company has tools to deal with this.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Believers of this idea point to the strange behavior of the craft on the Navy videos as evidence.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • But after the sun goes down, Kentucky's landscape turns dark and strange things emerge from the shadows.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Of all the artifacts that persist in the face of new technology, the globe may be strangest.
    Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Eventually, Matt digs out a strange cell next to his seat.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The release comes at a strange time for the meat substitutes industry.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2024
  • In 2016, the alt-comic cable talk show The Chris Gethard Show engineered a strange form of call-in game show.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The former president and the current president have their hands in it in a very strange way.
    Lauren Goode Michael Calore, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Just as Chowdhury felt ready to believe him, a strange thing happened: A fly appeared.
    Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Not fear of the past or some uncertain future, but fear of the vast, strange intensity of what is.
    Christopher Fiorello, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
  • There was something odd about the zipper on the Princess’s jacket, and a strange blurriness around Charlotte’s sleeve.
    Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024

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