How to Use bizarro in a Sentence

bizarro

adjective
  • That scene on the plane really felt like a bizarro Walt and Jesse scene.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
  • The flies were confused by this bizarro-world plume and moved away from the center rather than toward it.
    Dana MacKenzie, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
  • In bizarro YouTube world, those numbers climb much higher.
    Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 7 Aug. 2017
  • It’ll be played in full this summer, complemented by the Lips’ bizarro, one-of-a-kind circus of a live show.
    Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
  • The lone figure in the image seems to be trapped in some bizarro universe where talk of the Popeyes fried chicken sandwich is pure mythology.
    Wired, 29 Aug. 2019
  • For all intents and purposes, Miquela fits right in with the rest of the bizarro universe of social media celebrity.
    Eric Chang, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Turns out trusting your trigger finger to a bionic arm isn’t such a great idea in the first of many bizarro jokes involving the scene-stealing limb.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But to its credit, Mr. Jimmy isn’t just another peek into the bizarro world of show business.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Why did anyone pay such attention to this bizarro Mr. Smith gone to Washington?
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The film has subsequently inspired a surprising number of memes, adding to its bizarro lore.
    Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The Arctic has gone so bizarro that lightning—a warm-weather phenomenon most common in the tropics—is now striking near the North Pole.
    Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • In Cygnet Theatre’s enormously creative venture into the bizarro world, a string of naughty children gets what’s coming to them.
    David L. Coddon, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • To continue our bizarro billiards metaphor, imagine that one person plays our game alone in a room for a random period of time.
    Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2023
  • In the bizarro world of Friday’s coronavirus fears, the price of safe-haven gold fell, and cruise line stocks rose, even as the overall market continued its astounding selloff.
    James MacKintosh, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The bizarro world version of that is sites like WeLeakInfo, which takes that same data breach data and sells it for rock bottom prices to hackers who want to exploit it.
    Brian Barrett, Wired, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous was a whole other beast, using mockumentary-style filming to tell a bizarro tale of small-town pageant girls trying their best to not get killed by a crazed pageant mom.
    Alex Zaragoza, Teen Vogue, 23 July 2019
  • Tim Robinson's bizarro sketch show is one of the best things on Netflix — a chaotic collection of comedy, screaming, and excellent car ideas.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 24 May 2023
  • In the bizarro world of the conspiracy theorist, the 15-minute city was reimagined as a plan by shadowy elites to force us all to stay in our neighborhoods, depriving us of our freedom of movement.
    Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • That said, the rest of the world would almost certainly appreciate it if Moscow ended testing such a dangerous, bizarro weapon.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2018
  • In this bizarro world where black people are supervillains and white eyes can see guns that do not exist, these heroes are virtually unstoppable.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 June 2018
  • A half-hour sitcom that explores the philosophical roots of ethical behavior in a bizarro version of the afterlife?
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2018
  • Another transformed the website of a small-town Iowa newspaper into a bizarro repository for AI blog posts on retail stocks.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 5 Mar. 2024
  • But these are the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, after all, a nose-licking, ear-tickling bizarro world where road-ice advantage suddenly wields magic powers.
    Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 18 May 2018
  • But in the bizarro universe of House of Cards' fifth season (which is now streaming on Netflix), Frank orchestrates a fake raid on a murderer the administration is linking to terrorism.
    Paul Schrodt, Esquire, 31 May 2017
  • So Miguel runs away, determined to seek his own fate, and magically crosses over temporarily into the bizarro world of his deceased relatives.
    Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • An inventive mix of music, humor, and lockdown anxiety, his deep-dive into a bizarro new world is a pseudo-fantasy tuned by hypnotic songs about Instagram, sexting, and the like.
    Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 June 2023
  • Discovery is a science vessel, powered by glowing spores, whose powers are creating trippy, bizarro effects that force us to question what's real.
    Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2017
  • However, this type of bizarro stunt is something Latinx folks identified almost immediately.
    Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Such homages will doubtless strike appropriate chords with the target audience, in a film which breaks no new ground thematically or formally but which scores by detailing its bizarro gallery of characters with palpable sympathy throughout.
    Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2018
  • In this hyper-hypocritical, bizarro alt-universe, controversial carrots are dangled before the aforementioned 24-hour news cycle, and they are pounced upon, while, as Bee said, actually important, indeed life-or-death issues, are swept aside.
    Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 7 June 2018

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