How to Use strangeness in a Sentence

strangeness

noun

• A lot of it is the playfulness and the strangeness of it.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2023
• The lighting is smoothed over, yes, and so is a lot of the strangeness.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
• The words hang in the air, hitting his ears with their strangeness.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• Does the passage of time not fill one with a strangeness?
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 June 2024
• Michaels chalked it up to the timey-wimey strangeness of the pandemic years.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2022
• The hours and days and weeks that follow are a whirlwind of strangeness.
  — William Torrey, Longreads, 26 Sep. 2019
• The rocks under your feet, though, have no such strangeness to them.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich seemed very amused by all of this strangeness.
  — Alysha Tsuji, For The Win, 2 Jan. 2018
• Then there were the awards, which had a Rip Van Winkle-like strangeness.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• Adding to the strangeness: Pham homered both games on a sinker in the second pitch of his at-bat.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2022
• For me the joy of it is the strangeness of the way life can tip into farce and horror at the same moment.
  — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 22 June 2018
• At the heart of the strangeness of Christianity, of course, is the cross of Jesus.
  — Robert Barron, wsj.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• Words can’t do justice to its strangeness, so here is a video.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2019
• The conclusion of the May 19 game took just 39 minutes, and was full of strangeness.
  — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Which brings us back to the inherent strangeness of this form.
  — Amos Barshad, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
• Then multiply that times the strangeness of a Preakness held in the fall with no fans.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2020
• There’ll be new levels of strangeness from here on out.
  — Time, 19 July 2023
• The strangeness extends back, of course, to Hildebrand Gurlitt.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2018
• But like Panska itself, the state of the world is veiled in strangeness.
  — Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books, 16 Feb. 2023
• The strangeness of the day, moving from deep joy to tragedy within a matter of hours, weighed on their minds.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• Things that happen to us in the course of our everyday lives have a deep strangeness to them.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 20 May 2022
• In the video, featuring the dancer Xin Ying, the approach is meant to capture that sense of strangeness and fun.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
• And there was this uncanny strangeness through the whole film.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Jan. 2023
• But the best in this game lock into ways to spin all that strangeness into win-loss gold.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2021
• In a year of strangeness, that might be the most the profoundly peculiar thing of it all.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 13 Dec. 2020
• The filmmaker had noted the strangeness of the email, but figured that was just Bowie.
  — Zach Schonfeld, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2018
• His gift is to tune us into the beauty and the strangeness that walks among us, right here in river city.
  — Claude Peck, Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
• The effect is slightly wacky, to be sure, but a little strangeness can bring a lot of joy.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Mar. 2021
• The movie’s in riotous color, the TV set was black and white, and still little Marty was pulled into the vortex of its strangeness.
  — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• You’re meant to read the strangeness of Cooper’s behavior as a part of his sociopathy, repeatedly slipping away from his daughter on the concert floor.
  — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 3 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024