STRANGE in a Sentence

Learn STRANGE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
278 example sentences for STRANGE, such as:
1. Never accept lifts from strange men.
2. She was puzzled over his strange behavior.
3. I wonder where he gets these strange ideas.
4. His strange behavior is the talk of the town.
5. And there'll be that strange girl in the house.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of STRANGE
strange
 a.  not known before
 a.  relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her words fell on his ear with a strange shock of wonder.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  Zeena continued to look from one to the other; then she emitted her small strange laugh.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  Under his cheek he felt a hard object with strange protuberances.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
4  The strange exaltation of his mood had brought on one of his rare fits of boastfulness.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  And there'll be that strange girl in the house.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  It seemed strange now that when she was growing up Ashley had never seemed so very attractive to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Now that I think of it, 'tis strange you've been recently.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  Despite a mystifying listlessness of manner, so strange in a girl of fifteen, she charmed him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  This was a section that knew the chill of winter, as well as the heat of summer, and there was a vigor and energy in the people that was strange to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Her mind was as if a cyclone had gone through it, and it seemed strange that the dining room where they sat should be so placid, so unchanged from what it had always been.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  This was the answer to Ashley's reticence, to his strange conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  Atlanta considered him the root of all strength and all wisdom and it was not strange that he had absorbed something of their belief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  Atlanta was more interesting than Savannah or Charleston or Tara and it offered so many strange war-time occupations she had little time to think or mope.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  Melanie, however, did not seem to mind the smells, the wounds or the nakedness, which Scarlett thought strange in one who was the most timorous and modest of women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  I'm so nervous with just Melly in the house at night, with so many strange men in town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (68 in 5 pages)
1  Never accept lifts from strange men.
2  You must admit that it all sounds very strange.
3  The little boy felt strange amid so many adult people.
4  Arthur has some strange ideas, but on this occasion I'm inclined to agree with him.
5  One is always on a strange road, watching strange scenery and listening to strange music.
6  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.
7  His wife, a strange little mouse, never said anything.
8  She was propositioned by a strange man in the bar.
9  A strange figure appeared in the doorway, clad in white.
10  Adversity acquaints men with strange bedfellows.
11  I wonder where he gets these strange ideas.
12  She was puzzled over his strange behavior.
13  His strange behavior is the talk of the town.
14  She was an excellent speaker, but I found her choice of topic strange.
15  She had a strange conversation with the bloke who's moved in upstairs.