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
  • If the world throws some small strangeness at you, this is a chance to test the strength of your voice.
    Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 17 July 2017
  • 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
  • Torpe, a Dane, gives the King brand a fresh strangeness.
    Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 June 2017
  • 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
  • Stein’s strangenessStein 2051 B happens to be one of the closest white dwarf stars.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 June 2017
  • 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
  • Stein’s strangeness Stein 2051 B happens to be one of the closest white dwarf stars.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 June 2017
  • 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
  • The traveler is often captive to the slow-moving, and the marvelous, and the memorable, in strangeness.
    Paul Theroux, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024
  • One of them noted the strangeness of knowing so well what Nikel looks like without ever having been there.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024

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