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

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

From BBC • 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

If this was strange, it was only part of the strangeness of this place and of his presence in it.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin