How to Use weirdly in a Sentence

weirdly

adverb
  • That has weirdly prepared me to use a mic in this way in the studio.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 24 Nov. 2023
  • And, weirdly, no one ever seemed to shoot off guns there, not even on New Year’s Eve.
    Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The hills were weirdly quiet, as though the roads still belonged to nature.
    Ottessa Moshfegh, The New Yorker, 6 July 2023
  • At times, Putin seems weirdly out of touch with the realities of his war.
    Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The center was textured, weirdly rippled like the surface of a tiny brain or coral.
    Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
  • Landlord reserves the right to be weirdly nice to Tenant a couple of times.
    Sam Spero, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • And weirdly, she and Rachel are both associated with Dior and met at that thing in Paris for the first time.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
  • But this weirdly warm winter left the Great Lakes nearly devoid of ice.
    Todd Richmond, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • That was a weirdly stale series of jokes about the Kardashians and O.J. Simpson.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2023
  • My advice is to use the time to think why your family was — is — so weirdly intent on putting you in your place.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Everything about the fourth film feels weirdly distant and off somehow; slathered in a CG haze.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023
  • The cilantro volunteers everywhere and, weirdly, loves the cold.
    Bon Appétit, 3 May 2024
  • But even the live-laugh-love stuff is weirdly incoherent.
    Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • All three mains end up dead, but the truth, of course, still outs—and, in the process, puts a weirdly heroic spin on Price's Unbreakable-era atrocities.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Lumpy and weirdly shaped plants are a reminder of what can still grow under harsh conditions.
    Eviana Hartman Philip Cheung Bette Adams, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • What his work reminds me of the most, weirdly enough, is certain examples of post-punk manga.
    Gyasi Hall, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2023
  • As the years have progressed, it’s been fun to see all of this become a little bit more mainstream and weirdly accepted as fact.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
  • There is something weirdly refreshing about not showing the coming out of it all.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The first skit of the night, starring him and Heidi Gardner as weirdly frisky customers in a bank robbery, also ended with Brolin in his undies.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The weirdly close timing simply allowed both bikes to be shown at Rouleur, London’s high-end cycling show.
    Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Watching this adult woman scoop her own vomit out of the tub is...weirdly comforting?
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 July 2023
  • There’s weirdly little to suggest — let alone state outright — that this will be a musical.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
  • But, weirdly, the creation of particles that make something is the exception.
    Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • For a series about a rise to power, details of that rise go weirdly unspecified.
    Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 29 Feb. 2024
  • My mum inspired my style, Twilight and Harry Potter inspire me a lot, weirdly.
    Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Apr. 2023
  • But, no, weirdly enough, the ‘80s aspect of this movie was less about referencing or footnoting things than getting the story right for me.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2024
  • The atheist’s point of view is weirdly sustained through the imagination of other people and their beliefs.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2023
  • My young tree leafed-out weirdly this season, with some leaves looking normal and others being twisted and a bit paler yellow-green.
    Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 19 June 2023
  • What could've been a just-for-fans Easter egg is actually a charming, weirdly abstract short.
    Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Trump previously called for an end to subsidies offered on EVs by the current administration, a move that was, weirdly, welcomed by Musk.
    Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 30 July 2024

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