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Example sentences for "strangely"

Lexicographically close words:
strand; stranded; stranding; strands; strange; strangeness; strangenesse; stranger; strangerhood; strangers
  1. The nobility continue to be the profitable dupes of a host of confident impostors; and strangely seem to be infatuated with the belief that the man who sells a dog can likewise administer to the diseases of the creatures in which he trades.

  2. Restraint should be enforced only where absolutely necessary; and when it is so, the creature will strangely comprehend the reason that compels, and patiently, or at least without resentment, submit to its endurance.

  3. For some reason, the storekeeper seemed strangely agitated.

  4. But though his manner was as friendly as ever, and he seemed no less grateful and devoted, he was always strangely worried and distraught.

  5. He watched Dallas with cowed, questioning eyes, strangely soft and un-Indian in their expression.

  6. In the midst of the tumult, one spot--the stockade--kept strangely quiet.

  7. The elder girl felt strangely drawn to him.

  8. But his eyes--like the other's--were strangely luminous.

  9. Beside it, thrust up by lissome fingers--fingers white and strangely familiar--was a tomahawk.

  10. It had been a night that had left him strangely moved, strangely bewildered, unable even yet to focus his mind clearly and logically upon it.

  11. He found himself speaking at first mechanically, and then low and earnestly, swayed strangely by his own words.

  12. Yes, he was strangely moved this morning.

  13. It had been quiet, still and restful, he remembered; and he remembered that he had come away strangely calmed.

  14. He ate rapidly, and, strangely enough, with an appetite.

  15. His head ached and throbbed as though it were being pounded under quick and never-ending hammer blows; and yet it seemed to be strangely and softly cushioned.

  16. Bertram Ingledew drew one hand over his high white brow with a strangely puzzled air.

  17. And then we came here to this queer spot, and he has acted so strangely all the while, as though he feared some one might be meaning to do him an injury.

  18. Later on my only little sister, Pauline, strangely disappeared, and could never be found.

  19. Goodness must have gone strangely out of fashion, the corruption of manners must have been profound, before matters could have come to this point.

  20. She cannot endure that the name she bears should so strangely contradict the thing she is.

  21. Inocencio could not fathom the meaning of the subdued colloquy among the San Blas men, so he shouted a warning, but, strangely enough, they made no answer.

  22. Then, strangely enough, he bared his yellow teeth in a smile of rarest tenderness.

  23. He saw that the sky was strangely leaden and low, and in spite of the fact that the "quick" was falling rapidly, the air was lifeless and close.

  24. It was to be expected that Hope would share in his sweetheart's extravagant gladness, for he loved her deeply, with all the force of his big, strong nature, yet he acted strangely as time went on.

  25. Madelon remained close by, adding a grain of comfort and encouragement now and then, and regarding Van Dam with a strangely bewildered attention.

  26. Strangely enough, all theorists who analysed the problem of accumulation, from Ricardo and Sismondi to Marx, started with the very assumption which makes their problem insoluble.

  27. Strangely enough, European capital was not at all deterred by the desperate state of the insolvent country and offered again and again to grant immense loans for the salvation of Egypt.

  28. Constant capital seems still required to maintain production on the old scale, although it is strangely reduced to circulating capital, and although the reproduction of fixed capital is completely ignored.

  29. There is a flash of ecstasy through the strangely cautious description of Karshish; every syllable is weighed and thoughtful, everywhere the lines swell into perfect feeling.

  30. In her heart desire and odium beat strangely together.

  31. Strangely disregarded by Anna, but to Flora's secret dismay and rage, Constance, as she talked, was dropping from her doubled hands into the casket the last of the gems.

  32. It was the tomb of a crusader, of one of those military enthusiasts who so strangely mingled religion and romance, and whose exploits form the connecting link between fact and fiction, between the history and the fairytale.

  33. The room was panelled, with cornices of heavy carved work, in which flowers and grotesque faces were strangely intermingled, and a row of black-looking portraits stared mournfully at me from the walls.

  34. In glancing over this scene, so strangely populous, yet where every form is so still and silent, it seems almost as if we were treading a mansion of that fabled city where every being had been suddenly transmuted into stone.

  35. They may have pictured America to themselves an El Dorado, where gold and silver abounded, and the natives were lacking in sagacity, and where they were to become strangely and suddenly rich, in some unforeseen but easy manner.

  36. This strange conjunction, it seems, has as strangely come to pass.

  37. There was a strangely subdued air about her manner as she led him to where her father was; perhaps she was rather tired after the varied emotions she had experienced; perhaps she was still anxious.

  38. All this lonely world of olive greens and browns had grown strangely dark.

  39. I cannot go to-day, Keith," said his mother; and she left the room before he had time to notice that she was strangely excited.

  40. Their footsteps echoed strangely in this hollow space.

  41. The enormous skeletons of the glyptodons struck him also as strangely similar to that of the armadillo.

  42. The student of fossils, trying to rebuild in imagination the world of the past, finds himself often strangely unable to link these animals together.

  43. In his concern, the young collegian found himself strangely attracted to the services at Trinity; and he gradually acquired, as he confessed to his sister, more knowledge in divine things.

  44. I suspect that the children's toys will seem strangely familiar to them: a little girl's doll was found by the archæologists among the ruins of Babylon: childhood keeps pretty much the same all through the ages.

  45. In Mary's present state of mind, these passages, reaching her at a time so critical and in a manner so touching, strangely affected her.

  46. As he looked again at the glistening river, he felt strangely soothed and comforted.

  47. For, strangely enough, the winter rains and the summer suns conspire to keep it always full.

  48. II Strangely enough, it was a Quaker who fired the young man's fancy with this proud ambition.

  49. The testimony of such witnesses is strangely fascinating; their name is legion; we may yet cite one or two of them before we close.

  50. Nobody need wonder that the words strangely affected him.

  51. How strangely forgetful of the gulf that lay between them!

  52. I am almost afraid to open my lips in your presence," Mrs. Luna broke in, "but I must say that I think my sister was strangely communicative.

  53. Her offer had a frankness and friendliness which gave him a new sensation, and he could not know that as soon as she had made it (though she had hesitated too, with a moment of intense reflexion), she seemed to herself strangely reckless.

  54. This helped Olive to believe that she might begin to count upon her again, conscious as she was at the same time that Verena had been strangely weakened and strained by her odious ordeal.

  55. The modern Greeks have strangely disfigured the antiquities of Constantinople.

  56. In the dark ages which succeeded the translation of the empire, the remote and the immediate consequences of that memorable event were strangely confounded by the vanity of the Greeks and the credulity of the Latins.

  57. The head is strangely poised, much as if the artist intended to suggest the fact of decapitation; obliquity of vision, a defect hereditary in the Montmorencys, is also indicated, adding singularity.

  58. The sun, obscured by no earth-born cloud, gives out no spark nor ray of light; and in that solemn darkness every voice is strangely hushed.

  59. Then were he a strangely conquered foe, and not stingless, if for one hour he could separate us from the enjoyed love of Christ.

  60. The value of commerce, then, has been strangely misunderstood by these gentlemen, who suppose that they have calculated it so very accurately.

  61. Never was an argument of this nature before so strangely conducted.

  62. Wars had brought me to the rank I held, though, strangely enough, of those wars I can recall nothing now; they have vanished from my vision.

  63. In after days she told me that for those of one who had been sleeping the eyes of Martina seemed to be strangely wet and red.

  64. Then he led me down to the guard's bed, on which I sat myself down, being strangely interested in this play.

  65. Presently she spoke in a voice which sounded strangely low and weak, after the loud ravings and terrible screams of the past week.

  66. But if my old playmates find me strangely quiet and old, I see but little alteration in them.

  67. He wore a balloonish suit of purple, strangely scalloped at pocket and cuff, and more strangely decorated with lines of small parasite buttons, in color blue, obviously buttons of leisure.

  68. George drew as deep a breath as his diaphragm, strangely oppressed since dinner, would permit, and then bravely lit a Little Sweetheart.

  69. Then he became strangely wide-awake, a feeling of uneasiness came over him as of some threatening presence behind him, and again he felt the thirst.

  70. The words were said so strangely that the archbishop shuddered.

  71. On the second one there crouched a figure that somehow seemed strangely familiar to Phil Forrest.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strangely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    exceptionally; extraordinarily; incredibly; marvelously; miraculously; monstrously; mysteriously; notably; peculiarly; remarkably; singularly; wonderfully