QUEERLY in a Sentence

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198 example sentences for QUEERLY, such as:

1. The fish had a queer taste.
2. There's nowt so queer as folk.
3. The queer thing was, he didn't.
4. He gave a queer little bow, lifting his hat.
5. His imagination played round that queer idea.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUEERLY
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queerly
 ad.  in strange way;
Classic Sentence: (191 in 13 pages)
1  Her heart acted very queerly, beating regularly for several minutes and then thumping so loudly and swiftly it almost made her sick at her stomach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  Disappointment queerly stirring her, she opened her eyes a trifle and ventured a peep at him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  His eyes were wide and blazing queerly and the tremor in his arms frightened her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  You can fancy the scandal: there was an awful row between the men, and people began to look at Lily so queerly that Mrs. Peniston had to pack up and finish her cure elsewhere.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
5  For a week or two, Jo behaved so queerly that her sisters were quite bewildered.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOURTEEN
6  "I'll do my best, for your sake," promised Beth, wondering why Jo looked at her so queerly.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
7  He stopped and looked round at the lovely gray tangle about him, and his round eyes looked queerly happy.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  "We have met already," she said, putting her little hand into the huge hand of Yashvin, whose bashfulness was so queerly out of keeping with his immense frame and coarse face.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 31
9  Simonov, with whom I was left TETE-A-TETE, was in a state of vexation and perplexity, and looked at me queerly.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
10  And their queer, crude life seemed as unnatural as that of hedgehogs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  Connie really wondered at this queer, melancholy specimen of extraordinary success; it was said he had an income of fifty thousand dollars from America alone.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  'It's very pleasant up here,' he said, with his queer smile, as if it hurt him to smile, showing his teeth.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  The queer thing was, he didn't.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  He wrote to Connie with the same plaintive melancholy note as ever, sometimes witty, and touched with a queer, sexless affection.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  He gave a queer little bow, lifting his hat.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence:
1  Perhaps the glassy stare had lingered in his eyes, for Scales looked at him queerly.
2  I slept in queer places, and ate odd things, and met strange faces.
3  And the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change to the confused clamour of the busy farm yard.
4  How queer everything is to-day!
5  The fish had a queer taste.
6  His imagination played round that queer idea.
7  There's nowt so queer as folk.