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Example sentences for "queer little"

  • I guess it's nearly a century since you called me Bee," she said with a queer little laugh.

  • Kenyon looked about, with a queer little smile.

  • I've had a queer little pain in my heart for a long time, but you've taken it all away.

  • For, chained to one of the iron railings of a sixteenth century tomb, is a queer little iron-bound oaken cabinet.

  • He wandered till night, and then he came to a queer little house.

  • With a queer little noise in his throat he turned again and began to walk up and down, up and down, until I thought for a minute he'd forgotten I was there.

  • She colored up and bit her lip, and gave a queer little laugh.

  • He drew in his breath with a queer little catch to it; then he got up and walked up and down the piazza again.

  • She peered at them for some seconds from beneath her hand, for the sun was in her eyes; and suddenly a queer little thrill, that was not quite fear and not solely excitement, ran through her.

  • She made a queer little gesture, the merest butterfly movement, and yet it had in it the faintest suggestion of hurt surprise.

  • It is a queer little place to bring you to," she said, "but my husband used to spend many hours here, and he would never allow anything to be moved.

  • Lord Ashleigh did his best to dispel a queer little sensation of uneasiness which seemed to have arisen in the minds of all of them.

  • A queer little feeling of uneasiness disturbed her for the moment.

  • The two men smiled as they went out, as though they were saying to themselves,--"Queer little piece to have all that money!

  • Oh, she's a queer little piece," the trust officer replied evasively.

  • Trafford entered into the conspiracy with a keen interest, a certain amusement, and a queer little feeling of distaste.

  • She had felt a queer little repugnance at first with this helpless man, but now that professional nurse who lurks in the composition of so many women, was uppermost.

  • The baroness made a queer little sound, shut her eyes, spread out her hands, and dropped on to the carpet as though she had been shot.

  • She was thinking that this was a queer little person--outside, that is.

  • You think I would make a queer little man?

  • Not far off; for scarcely had Alice opened the door and called him once or twice, when with a queer little note of answer, he came hurriedly trotting in.

  • Why, you're a queer little fish," said Nancy.

  • She only looked at Ellen, looked grave, and gave a queer little nod of her head, which meant, Ellen could not make out what.

  • He smiled back, and then, with a queer little apology in his mind, he turned his eyes away to take a last look at the soft dusk through the window.

  • With the knowledge went a queer little pang of disappointment; he had so been accustoming his mind to the glamour of expulsion in circumstances such as his.

  • Well, it's a queer little place," he remarked.

  • It's the first time you've told me," she reminded him, with a queer little smile.

  • The hand which held his pipe was as firm as a rock, but there was a queer little gleam of expectation in his eyes.

  • A queer little wave of passion seemed to have seized her.

  • You're a queer little girl, Sophy," he said.

  • And downstairs, Miss Cheyne said aloud with a queer little chuckle, when the girl had left the room: "See your friends?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "queer little" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and looked; beg you; being affected; chapter xxxiii; even then; felt the; galvanised iron; good taste; great saving; greatest breadth; hear from; implore you; late father; married man; only natural; only they; our line; post free; queer fish; queer little; queer smile; queer sort; queer thing; shall kill; voice rose; what precedes