(n.) The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
Example Sentences:
(1) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(2) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(3) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(4) Nonetheless some strange theories have been floated.
(5) The effect on milk yield, milk leucocyte concentration, and milk prolactin of dominance rank and introduction of "strange" cows into a group was studied.
(6) Perhaps strangely, it was the second remark that troubled me more than the possibility that humanity would be extinguished by my hand.
(7) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
(8) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
(9) Having always voted Conservative, he says that Labour's increasing doubts about HS2 suggest that they may be more deserving of his vote, something that clearly feels very strange indeed.
(10) When you ask for the phone numbers or names or addresses they are, strangely, unavailable."
(11) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(12) Training grounds during a World Cup turn out to be a strange little bubble of a world.
(13) I was an immigrant, although a reluctant one, and I was living in a huge strange country that resembled the America I'd encountered in books and in films so much less than I had expected.
(14) When female voles were allowed contact with the stud male for only 1 h at the time of mating, 55% exhibited pregnancy failure when exposed to a strange male 48 h later.
(15) As Nelson Mandela lay in the open casket , his features both familiar and strange, a crisply suited Robert Mugabe gazed down at him through his dark glasses for a long, still, silent moment.
(16) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(17) 12.24am BST The Labor leader has seen the decision by the Greens to back in Tony Abbott in reintroducing fuel tax indexation in this budget, but strangely he has not seen their decision to oppose the deficit tax, even though it was announced at the same time.
(18) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
(19) To explain these contentions, the history, strengths, and limits of reductionist thinking are discussed, and aspects of chaos science, such as the butterfly effect and strange attractors, are described.
(20) Strangely enough, we continue to endure retrograde policy approaches that are more likely to further entrench a sense of disempowerment among Aboriginal people, rather than acknowledge and enable individual empowerment.
Stranger
Definition:
(n.) One who is strange, foreign, or unknown.
(n.) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
(n.) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.
(n.) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
(n.) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
(n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.
(v. t.) To estrange; to alienate.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report concerns the rape of a woman by a stranger.
(2) "It is also very surprising that the government is advising families with disabled children, and children suffering trauma following serious abuse, to invite a stranger into their home."
(3) If you work at home and don't talk to strangers in pubs or do sport or belong to associations, and don't have school-age children, it is very hard to meet new people.
(4) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(5) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
(6) But in the Round Room of the Mansion House there must have been at least two thousand others in an improvised Strangers' Gallery.
(7) Mohamed Saleh, the security supervisor for the Al Masry club, claimed that he too noticed people in the crowd whom he described as "strangers".
(8) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
(9) Discontinuation rates of injection equipment sharing practices varied from 33% in shared use of cookers to 74.2% in sharing needles with strangers.
(10) Who can complain of physical fear, of the nightmare of a baby eating its way out of your abdomen, of the loss of professional autonomy, staring at a stranger's idiotic grin?
(11) Killer Mike and Talib Kweli both appeared on news channels such as CNN and Fox to offer measured words on the situation (Killer Mike: “We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that’s no longer a community, that’s an area that’s under siege”), while Common interrupted the MTV Video Music Awards to deliver a considered monologue on Ferguson , calling for a moment of silence “for Mike Brown and for peace in this country and in the world”.
(12) "We reject any strangers, and they are colonialists," said Rudha Muter, a local resident.
(13) Systolic (S)BP and diastolic (D)BP levels varied significantly as a function of the social situation (alone, with family, with friends, or with strangers).
(14) Five percent occurred after adolescents "hitchhiked" and accepted rides from strangers.
(15) In unstructured interactions, male friends were found to be more accurate than male strangers in inferring each other's thoughts and feelings.
(16) I can see their point but it does not feel right to me that the random output of a program can be considered something I said.” Even more intriguingly, the death threat was issued during a conversation with another bot, each having been programmed to reply to messages from strangers.
(17) Discrimination between individual strangers and companions was examined in day-old domestic chicks.
(18) No stranger to bereavement – on the last count I had lost 12 close friends and family members by the age of 35 – I’d endured so much loss that I had become blasé about death.
(19) It was wrong of him to disclose his thoughts about the proposed BSkyB merger to total strangers.
(20) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.