WEIRD in a Sentence

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For WEIRD, below is one of 37 sentences:
I must have felt pretty weird by that time because I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon.

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 Meanings and Examples of WEIRD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
weird
 a.  queer; of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  Tales were told in the City of the weird figure which was seen prowling about the suburbs, and which haunted the lonely mountain gorges.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2  It was weird and it was nothing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  She was thrilled to a weird passion.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
4  She felt she was being crushed to death by weird lies, and by the amazing cruelty of idiocy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  Perhaps they were only weird fauna of the coal-seams.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
6  They had perhaps some of the weird, inhuman beauty of minerals, the lustre of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the transparency of glass.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
7  The wood re-echoed with weird noises.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  Having chosen to exhume them, after ten years of burial, she has a weird array.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  Duncan was a rather short, broad, dark-skinned, taciturn Hamlet of a fellow with straight black hair and a weird Celtic conceit of himself.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
10  He was to have retained his isolated and weird.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
11  The melancholy of the moor, the death of the unfortunate pony, the weird sound which had been associated with the grim legend of the Baskervilles, all these things tinged my thoughts with sadness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
12  He was, indeed, a weird figure as he turned his white mane and his glowing eyes towards us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
13  And now I was to see the most weird and horrible thing, I think, of all that I beheld in that future age.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  I must have felt pretty weird by that time because I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  Laughing so shrilly that all the market-place could hear her, the weird old gentlewoman took her departure.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
Example Sentence:
1  It's weird watching your leg to crumple in directions it's not natural to go in.
2  I think it's good for a person and good for the work eventually, in weird ways that don't pop out immediately.
3  Instead, the purpose of the story seems to be to show some really weird poses in skimpy outfits.
4  He was sitting alone by a window with a weird contraption on the bench in front of him.
5  I met this really weird guy last night.
6  The student inadvertently transposed the e and the i in "weird".