strangeness

Example Sentences

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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

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

He couldn’t stay awake, and he couldn’t sleep, either; his head was spinning, a daze of strangeness hung over everything, and his hand was sore and throbbing.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman