STRANGE in a Sentence

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For STRANGE, below is one of 278 sentences:
Atlanta considered him the root of all strength and all wisdom and it was not strange that he had absorbed something of their belief.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRANGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
strange
 a.  not previously known, seen, felt, heard of, etc
 a.  unusual or curious; odd; queer
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Now that I think of it, 'tis strange you've been recently.'
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  This was the answer to Ashley's reticence, to his strange conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (68 in 5 pages)
16  She looked lovely, despite her strange apparel.
17  It was a strange spectacle to see the two former enemies shaking hands and slapping each other on the back.
18  I've never been here before either, so it's all strange to me too.
19  I cannot explain her strange behaviour.
20  We live in strange times indeed.
21  When children end up taking care of their parents, it is a strange role reversal indeed.
22  The first chapter describes the strange sequence of events that lead to his death.
23  Years later, by a strange quirk of fate , she found herself sitting next to him on a plane.
24  She was looking at me in a very strange way.
25  Now that you mention it, she did seem to be in a strange mood.
26  He had a strange quirk of addressing his wife as Mrs Smith.
27  He shivered as he heard the strange noise in the night.
28  My day began in the normal way, and then I received a very strange phone call.
29  The strange look in his eyes made me wary of accepting his offer.
30  A strange person is asking to see you.