strangeness

Example Sentences

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Funny how neither film adaptation knew what to make of El Rey, dropping him and Thompson’s surreal depiction of hell; the book’s admirers swear by the ending’s strangeness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 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

Masli’s strangeness never goes away, but it becomes increasingly friendly and, by the end of the 75-minute show, comfortingly familiar.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025

The fact that Ammonite has a completely different orbit from the other sednoids has left astronomers puzzling over the diversity and strangeness of the outer Solar System.

From Space Scoop • Jul. 31, 2025

She looked around, sitting on her pine branch proud and unafraid, though her heart was beating with the strangeness of it, and her dæmon fluttered to sit close to the warmth of her body.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman