How to Use strangeness in a Sentence

strangeness

noun
  • This strange day brought the strangeness of our lives to full view.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
  • This is a book that takes on the utter strangeness of grief.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Words can’t do justice to its strangeness, so here is a video.
    — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2019
  • The words hang in the air, hitting his ears with their strangeness.
    — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
  • This was the norm — this kind of coldness, this kind of strangeness.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The rocks under your feet, though, have no such strangeness to them.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • That strangeness has fed centuries of myth.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The lighting is smoothed over, yes, and so is a lot of the strangeness.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
  • If the world throws some small strangeness at you, this is a chance to test the strength of your voice.
    — Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 17 July 2017
  • Which brings us back to the inherent strangeness of this form.
    — Amos Barshad, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The hours and days and weeks that follow are a whirlwind of strangeness.
    — William Torrey, Longreads, 26 Sep. 2019
  • And there was this uncanny strangeness through the whole film.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich seemed very amused by all of this strangeness.
    — Alysha Tsuji, For The Win, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Thirty-three shots lost to the strangeness of a night that promised to be special.
    — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
  • But the best in this game lock into ways to spin all that strangeness into win-loss gold.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2021
  • For all the hoopla around the game and the strangeness of the setting, there still are two points on the line.
    — The Athletic Nhl Staff, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Sloppy, arid strangeness awaits us in Las Cruces.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Things that happen to us in the course of our everyday lives have a deep strangeness to them.
    — Katie Rife, Vulture, 20 May 2022
  • The effect is slightly wacky, to be sure, but a little strangeness can bring a lot of joy.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Mar. 2021
  • But for the Bulls front office, there’s a purpose to the strangeness.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The strangeness is the point, and the strangeness is worth savoring.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The sentences do not show themselves off, are not self-conscious of their strangeness.
    — Book Marks august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In that case, the billionaire’s strangeness might not be something to be shunned, but sought.
    — Frederick Kaufman, Fortune, 30 July 2023
  • For me the joy of it is the strangeness of the way life can tip into farce and horror at the same moment.
    — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • His gift is to tune us into the beauty and the strangeness that walks among us, right here in river city.
    — Claude Peck, Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The strangeness of the day, moving from deep joy to tragedy within a matter of hours, weighed on their minds.
    — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • In a year of strangeness, that might be the most the profoundly peculiar thing of it all.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 13 Dec. 2020
  • But for six days the refugee was simply lost in the strangeness of Buffalo.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • Then multiply that times the strangeness of a Preakness held in the fall with no fans.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2020
  • But like Panska itself, the state of the world is veiled in strangeness.
    — Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023

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