How to Use freakish in a Sentence

freakish

adjective
  • Maybe this is a freakish hot spot.
    — Sports Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep. 2017
  • There are others, in his opinion, who have more freakish strength.
    — Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • There’s still the clowns, the jugglers, the almost freakish things.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2018
  • There’s still the clowns, the jugglers, the almost freakish things.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • If that doesn’t intrigue you, maybe this freakish, eight-foot-long sea creature will.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 29 Aug. 2022
  • McKinley is a freakish athlete with great speed off the edge.
    — Eddie Brown, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Work is grinding to a halt and everything’s all weird and freakish.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Most memorable of all, though, is his freakish barking in the prison cell.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Maybe the injuries, freakish or otherwise, have thrown them off track.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2020
  • To them Trumpism is more than a freakish blight on the republic.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Presumably, none of this freakish array of stuff is being sold with the house.
    — Jeff Andrews, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Then, of course there's Garrett and his freakish ability to get around the edge.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Keep this one on hand for those freakish 90-plus days in September.
    — Diana Tsui, The Cut, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Still, there was no freakish cause to the seemingly unending rain.
    — Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 June 2017
  • Then the maple leaves turn, the bluebird days give way to freakish weather swings, and your fishing, like the geese, heads south.
    — Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2020
  • His freakish knee sprain at the bubble was a stark reminder of just how fragile the body can be, even for an elite athlete.
    — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Garrett, a freakish athlete who has been accused of sometimes taking plays off, could help change that.
    — Barry Wilner, The Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2017
  • By any reckoning, the spread of gin has been a freakish phenomenon.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • So much of the talk so far has been about Kylian Mbappe and his freakish goals record in World Cups.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 27 June 2026
  • His athleticism was even more freakish on the defensive end, where his prowess patrolling the paint changed the tenor of games.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The discovery is magnificent, even if the sea pen looks a bit freakish sticking out of the sea’s sandy bottom.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
  • Teague’s physique borders on freakish, though, and falling short of that standard right now is no failure for Hayden.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 23 June 2021
  • The power cuts out, a mysterious cloud lurks on the horizon, and freakish storms drop detritus from the sky.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2022
  • The portraits were, to my mind, ugly and strange, but there was no denying a certain amount of freakish accuracy.
    — Sophie Haigney, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Admittedly, Spain were on the wrong end of a rather freakish result in that tournament.
    — SI.com, 5 July 2018
  • While near the epicenter of this freakish early heat, San Antonio is not alone.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 30 June 2022
  • One of the most freakish athletes in the league who has developed the rest of his game to match his unreal leaping prowess over recent years.
    — Frank Urbina, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Clowney disrupts the run in freakish ways Pro Football Focus loves Clowney.
    — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The Colts loved Paye’s athletic traits, his long arms and his power and his speed and his freakish change of direction.
    — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Such rough winters must seem especially freakish to Portlanders born in the past 50 years.
    — oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2020

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