strangeness

Example Sentences

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Visitors from around the world are drawn to the scale and strangeness of the basilica.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

So it’s taking things that are classic in spirit, but then giving a strangeness to it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Some species and populations take this strangeness even further by producing seeds without fertilization -- a reproductive strategy that is extremely rare among plants.

From Science Daily • Dec. 20, 2025

It was comical, sure, but it also summed up the strangeness of the whole night.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

I felt a kind of sorrow for them: a commonplace whose strangeness remained somehow hidden from my incurious fellows.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan