How to Use freak in a Sentence

freak

1 of 3 noun
  • I had a terrible rash on my face, and I felt like a freak.
  • Man, just what a freak, freak deal.
    — Lydia Mee, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Just not a freak that way, sorry.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The freak athlete part is well-known.
    — Tracy Kimball, Charlotte Observer, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The freak athlete part is well-known.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Rarely were there any true freaks, which was where their sideshow stood out.
    — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • That’s just the freestyle freak flag flying.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But three days in, a freak blizzard struck.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But freak injuries don’t care about track records.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The scoreline was, in a way, a bit of a freak event.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • What kind of freak throws a 95 mph splitter?
    — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Did a freak rainstorm wash half of your topsoil away?
    — Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2026
  • They can also be used in the event of a freak storm that might drop hail or snow.
    — Jack Dura, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • What the heck is the best way to do this without sounding like a freak?
    — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Sherman didn’t mind hanging with the freaks, though.
    — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Sports do involve variables — a lucky bounce here, a freak break there.
    — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Lindsey was a neat freak, but the dishes were piled up – about a month’s worth.
    — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2021
  • How his father is an Elvis freak and loves and dies for Elvis.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026
  • My husband is a total freak, so his first stop was the hotel gym.
    — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • The Kenyan rusher is a freak athlete.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The clean freaks in your life will be eternally grateful.
    — Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Seeing her freak, Daniel asks what happened.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Among them are the freak injuries that have hindered the team at just about every step of the way.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The four-star recruit is a freak and has no problem admitting to it.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2020
  • This was his fifth season, and this eye injury had been a freak accident.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 24 Dec. 2025
  • That’s the kind of freak injury a guy like Robinson can ill afford.
    — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 3 June 2021
  • This was just a freak accident, not caused by anything Nick did.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • People would take it very seriously and kind of freak out.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This week, go reveal your inner freak for a three-cylinder Geo.
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 6 Apr. 2022
  • But a freak who might be dangerous, because his words and actions could spread.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026

freak

2 of 3 adjective
  • He was the victim of a freak accident.
  • Let your freak flag fly and the people who love you will be there to catch you.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
  • That's not even to mention the backups that have been out, freak stuff.
    — Greg Luca, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Nov. 2022
  • What kind of freak accident happens to a bird that lives in your house?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 July 2021
  • Two years ago, her home was severely damaged in a freak flood.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Arthur’s death was supposed to be a freak act of violence, not an omen.
    — Mattie Kahn, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
  • How the rocket and the Moon will meet up is a freak occurrence.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Did man stage a freak car accident to cover up wife's murder?
    — CBS News, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Cassie loves to party but dies in a freak accident and must atone for her wrongs on earth to earn her wings.
    — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2021
  • There were four deaths in training, two of those coming in a freak collision.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
  • And the sport’s been very fortunate to not have anything freak or weird happen for many, many years.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Quite possibly my favorite 22-minute psych-freak noise-punk drone of the year.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Keep your freak flag flying, because there's more Doom Patrol on the way.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2020
  • His left ankle, sprained in a freak accident hours before opening night, felt good.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Miller has recovered from a freak ankle injury that sidelined him all of last season.
    — Barry Wilner, ajc, 16 Mar. 2021
  • When it was thought of at all, the flood was once considered a thousand-year anomaly, a freak occurrence.
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
  • But Bernard didn’t just start showing his freak athleticism in a Utes uniform.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Clyde faces trauma after his fiancee and his handsome looks are taken away from him in a freak accident.
    — Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Dec. 2022
  • There was, of course, the off chance that this override of his aircraft was due to some freak malfunction in the F-35.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
  • In the decade since his child’s death, Warner has learned that what happened to Taylor was no freak accident.
    — Eli Wolfe, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2020
  • But then Jimmy takes a midnight ride and gets into even more of a pickle, all because of a freak accident.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The Memphis revival—both in fashion and in design—is just another signal to let your freak flag fly.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 19 May 2021
  • The fire and burns were a freak accident, the result of which Hamilton relied on faith and family to get through.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • But in 2016 a freak storm disconnected it, leading to a statewide blackout.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • When a freak head injury at work triggers surreal glimpses of the future, Cindy’s life quickly unspools.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Feb. 2022
  • You might be tempted to let your freak flag fly, but fear of how your peers would react to discovering a new side of you is possibly holding you back.
    — Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Vea is an ideal match lining up next to Geno Atkins as a 346-pound freak athlete run-stopper.
    — Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • McWhorter suffered a freak accident and had the outdoor track & field season canceled as a freshman.
    — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 June 2021
  • But if flying a freak flag were the only prerequisite for a trophy this year, then Seth Meyers would have it in the bag.
    — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 17 June 2021
  • Blake Lively stars as Adaline, a woman who, due to a freak accident, stopped aging at 29 years old.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 16 Dec. 2022

freak

3 of 3 verb
  • That scene freaks me out even now.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Trump is freaked out by that prospect.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • That stuff used to freak me out more.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
  • That doesn’t mean he’s not freaked out about it, though.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Dogs have been known to freak out and refuse to walk across it.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Part of me wanted to just freak out.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Part of me wanted to just freak out.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The bbq here is freaking great!
    — Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2025
  • So why did investors freak out?
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • And this whole challenge freaks me out.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 22 June 2026
  • So that's got people freaked out about it.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Don’t freak out if the ideas are ugly.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Something about her freaked out your dog.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • To be in shape, to be slim and all that, takes a lot of freaking work.
    — Wendy Geller, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Here are the teams that will freak out as the rest of baseball points and laughs.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The blood was what really freaked me out.
    — Jillian Wager, Glamour, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Even talking out loud on the phone would sometimes freak me out.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Our role as astrologers isn’t to scare people, freak them out.
    — Madison Feller, ELLE, 30 June 2023
  • These dumb little kids were freaking bored.
    — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 8 May 2026
  • If the very premise doesn't freak you out, the story behind it will.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 22 June 2022
  • But don’t freak cuteness fans — the main act is still the baby pups.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Both teams are playing freaking hard.
    — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2025
  • But here are three reasons not to freak out -- yet -- about rising oil prices.
    — Christine Romans, CNN, 9 Mar. 2022
  • My husband freaks out, messages him.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Those Sharon Shapiro portraits in the rooms freaked me out.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Few things freaked us out back in the day quite like Anaconda.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • These things look freaking awesome!
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • What what’s the message to those people that are just going to freak out?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • As a final point, there’s no reason to freak out about the food recall.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 26 Aug. 2021
  • There's something about it that makes the germaphobe in me start freaking out.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 8 Nov. 2025

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