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Example sentences for "freakish"

Lexicographically close words:
frayle; frays; frazzled; freak; freaked; freakishness; freaks; freaky; freckened; freckle
  1. The freakish beauty of your perfect, unmatched eyes," he prompted.

  2. Wield leniently the dangerous gift of your witchcraft--the freakish beauty of your perfect unmatched eyes.

  3. Perhaps, in a freakish moment, she had concealed herself for no other purpose than to cause him a little perplexity.

  4. It was just the gloom of those dark woods, the play of some freakish and deceptive shadow conjuring itself into a human presence, that he had seen.

  5. Doubtless this freakish little shelter left by the storm was occupied by a couple of hoboes, perhaps thieves.

  6. The deceit failed of effect, for there was no inmate left, and the freakish gust could only twirl the lock anew, and go swirling down the road with a rout of dust in a witches' dance behind it.

  7. This is a freakish spirit who delights rather to perplex and frighten mankind than either to serve or seriously hurt them.

  8. The Scottish Brownie formed a class of being distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves.

  9. Ancient hulks and impractical oddities did not seem antique or freakish to them.

  10. There were disputes between freakish ships when craft with the astrogational qualities of washtubs tried to keep assigned positions, and failed, and there were squabbles when ships had to pass close together.

  11. Hervey knew nothing of the freakish influence of light on tracks and trails, but he saw here something which he knew had been made by a moving object.

  12. But time and again this freakish glint of light had been proven to be the reflection of that very camp-fire upon a huge rock lodged up there and held by interlacing roots.

  13. But no one ventured up to that little home to investigate that freakish streak of color.

  14. It was the same twisted smile that Alcott knew so well, two-thirds on one side of his face, the same shy, freakish look in the eyes as of a cornered animal.

  15. Not quite so inartistic as this, and yet frankly freakish was the arrangement of the closet scene between Hamlet and his mother, when Sarah-Bernhardt made her misguided effort to impersonate the Prince of Denmark.

  16. But Thayer says that such a ménage could not last, as Beethoven was "too irritable, too freakish and too stubborn, too easily injured and too hardly reconciled.

  17. This freakish young woman had some acquaintance with Goethe, and after his death published letters alleged to have been sent to her by him.

  18. What freakish fancy had possessed her----?

  19. He was like a scarecrow image that had been stuck up by a freakish joker in a London street.

  20. Amidst his austerely disciplined thoughts the impulse was like a mad, freakish intruder, and it frightened him, so that he drew back sharply.

  21. The Brownie formed a class of beings, distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves.

  22. It may be a question whether the wife or the woman was the more freakish of the two.

  23. Freakish when well, and fretful when she's sick.

  24. And it showed how freakish and contradictory Molly was in all her ways that she would never join nicely in school feasts, or harvest homes, or anything pleasant or cheerful.

  25. Occupied with her first joy in knowledge, and with dreams of future delights in the great world, she had not broken out into any very freakish act of benevolence for a long time.

  26. By one of those freakish accidents that will occur in the best regulated gardens, a batch of Fairy Lilies was planted behind the ramping Alstrumerias.

  27. When a freakish and petulant man consents to petticoat rule, he usually reserves his freedom of action in regard to a few matters of minor importance.

  28. The whole affair was the mere whimsey of his own freakish imagination.

  29. Amy felt anxious, as well she might, for when Jo turned freakish there was no knowing where she would stop.

  30. The knight agreed to try, and got on slowly but surely; for the colt was a gallant fellow, and soon learned to love his new master, though he was freakish and wild.

  31. There is nothing eccentric, nothing freakish about his game.

  32. He relapsed into moody silence, and, as they moved away together, Tresler was thankful for the freakish chance that had made this man come to him with his plan before putting it into execution.

  33. Would she, freakish brute that she was, realize her own danger, and, for once in her desperate life, do one sensible act?

  34. Tacked up with a random, reckless hand, the bizarre collection was typically significant of someone's whimsical, freakish tastes and personality.

  35. How freakish sounded that old London variety stage ditty ridiculing the nightly silence of the great snow-bound Nor' West.

  36. Then only a phenomenally rare or large or freakish example seemed to warrant the trouble and expense of putting in the taxidermist's hands.

  37. Extra large heads or antlers of freakish formation seem to possess a special fascination for the public.

  38. But the old fellow, in his civil and demure manner, was both freakish and obstinate; and he had now taken some notion or other into his head that made him hesitate in his former design.

  39. After a little more delay on the part of our freakish visitor, they set forth together, old Moodie keeping a step or two behind Hollingsworth, so that the latter could not very conveniently look him in the face.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "freakish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abnormal; adrift; afloat; amorphous; anomalous; arbitrary; baroque; bizarre; capricious; changeable; crank; cranky; crotchety; curious; deformed; desultory; different; divergent; dizzy; eccentric; erratic; exceptional; fanciful; fantastic; fantastical; fickle; fitful; flaky; flickering; flighty; flitting; fluctuating; freak; freakish; funny; giddy; grotesque; harebrained; idiosyncratic; impetuous; impulsive; inconsistent; inconstant; indecisive; infirm; irregular; irresolute; irresponsible; kinky; maggoty; malformed; mazy; mercurial; misbegotten; misshapen; monstrous; moody; notional; nutty; odd; outlandish; outre; peculiar; petulant; phenomenal; queer; rambling; restless; rococo; roving; screwy; shapeless; shifting; shifty; shuffling; singular; spasmodic; spineless; strange; temperamental; twisted; unaccountable; uncertain; uncontrolled; unconventional; undisciplined; unfixed; unnatural; unpredictable; unreasonable; unreliable; unrestrained; unsettled; unstable; unsteady; unusual; vacillating; vagrant; variable; volatile; wandering; wanton; wavering; wavy; wayward; whimsical