strangeness

Example Sentences

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She said that the change to the script added a spiritual strangeness to the film and gave the second act a real climax, because no one expected to lose the Jedi master.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 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

In this account of life with a wild creature—a being by turns serene and frisky, trusting and standoffish—Ms. Dalton connects readers with the strangeness of the natural world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Lina stepped slowly because of Poppy, and Poppy clung to her neck, unusually quiet, sensing the strangeness and importance of what was happening.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau