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Definitions in simple English

strange

Unusual or odd. My brother is so strange that he can turn his eyelids inside out. unknown. Gerald saw a strange car parked in his driveway.

strange

being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird a strange exaltation that was indefinable a strange fantastical mind what a strange sense of humor she has (= unknown) not known before used many strange words saw many strange faces in the crowd don't let anyone unknown into the house (= foreign) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world foreign nations a foreign accent on business in a foreign city

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Simple sentences

Tom awoke to find himself in a strange room.
The story may sound strange, but it is true.
I dreamed a strange dream.
We saw nothing strange.
He likes strange animals, things like snakes, for example.
He has strange ideas.
That's a strange question.
I dreamt a strange dream.
How strange!
Layla heard strange noises.
A strange spectacle unfolded before my eyes.
Your way of thinking is strange to me.
Tom asked some very strange questions.
Strange events occurred that night.
Sometimes he can be a strange guy.
I always liked strange personalities.
It's strange you say that.
I saw something strange in the sky.
A strange feeling came over me.
It may sound strange, but what she said is true.
It sounds strange, but it is true none the less.
It may sound strange, but it is true.
Strange to say, he didn't know the news.
Strange things happened on her birthday.
Strange to say, all the lights in the house were on, though no one was at home.
Has anything strange happened?
Strange to say, he saw the ghost of his father.
Strange to say, no one voted for the candidate.
He's possessed by a strange idea.
Strange to say, the door opened of itself.

Movie subtitles

Or was it just Confucian suspicion of the so-caIIed strange things that admiral Zheng He had brought home with him?
So, I found this symbol that is really strange.
It's strange..
I'm not in a place to speak considering I came back from the dead, but there really are all kinds of strange monsters, aren't there?
You're going to feel a strange feeling at the top of your chest.
That's almost as sad as a girl coming to a strange bar by herself.
That strange Antipodean and tradition of a mighty roast on a sweltering summer's day.
That's all I recall. Oh, strange.
The Daskasan region has been through some strange phenomena as of late.
But really strange things started to happen just this August.
Strange news spread through the population rapidly.
Something strange is happening out there.
The astronomers suddenly notice strange beings coming out from underneath the mushrooms while making singular contortions.
Valgrand belives to have a strange nightmare.
Look at that strange set-up.
The senseless reasoning on those orders, the intel of unknown origin, plus the strange way The Blessed had all the data that we had.
It's strange. I'd forgotten what pain like this felt like.
That strange piece of technology Lucy brought us and Ivan, you haven't forgotten them?
The strange look in her eyes, her cool and amazed smile confused me.
A whim of nature, if you like, a strange caprice.
Our times are full of strange things.
How strange, fear of happiness?
I have found a strange old mechanical presentation of Hell, which offers a good understanding of the beliefs in the Middle Ages.
Today, this strange insensitivity is considered a symptom of hysteria.
Melody floats through hall and corridor, even to the executive offices, where a strange deal is being closed.
Miles of docks wait day and night for strange cargo - and stranger men.
He was acting strange, like I'd caught him.
It seems strange to find you working here instead of our own home.
Always hearing a strange song in her ears.
He told me something very strange last time.
Won't it be very strange?
It's strange.. People seem to be living here though.. Hey, Storage Yard (Ghost)!
She can jump from body to body? I'm not in a place to speak considering I came back from the dead, but there really are all kinds of strange monsters, aren't there?
There's something strange about you.
The raftsmen were oblivious of the strange cargo they piloted downstream.
All victims appear to have the same strange wounds on their necks, the origin of which is still a mystery to doctors.
But she found its strange force irresistible.
This is a strange report. on hypnotism, sorcery, and a trunk with twelve sharp swords.
Gee, but you're a strange man.

News and current affairs

That is exactly what is going on in Ukraine, where President Leonid Kuchma proposes to junk our presidential system and replace it with a strange type of parliamentary system he has concocted.
This is not to say that the economic concept of politics is utterly strange to the Chinese - or, for that matter, that the religious notion of politics is unknown in the democratic West.
A strange picture of Bush emerged from conversations with sub-cabinet administration appointees, their friends, and their friends of friends.
It is difficult to exaggerate the strange sentiment in the West which one might call Palestine romanticism.
On the surface, Microsoft and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's police look like strange bedfellows.
Perhaps that outcome shouldn't seem so strange.
PARIS - There is a strange foreboding in the world economy.
Colombia is in better shape today than it has been for years, thanks largely to President Alvaro Uribe's leadership, but it remains a bizarre place, one facing strange and intractable challenges.
But it would be strange to conclude from Greece's experience that wage deflation is a useless tool for improving competitiveness, given the widespread assumption that Germany benefited massively from it.
It is strange but true that even American unilateralism under President George W. Bush has not provoked a genuine debate over Europe's future role in the world.
Even in US politics, which can be very strange, this is extraordinary.
This reasoning is strange, at best.
But then a strange thing happened: the Bush administration did not order any of the three options that were thought to be on the menu.
This island of central planning in the midst of the market economy was a strange and puzzling feature - all the more so because so few remarked how strange it was.
And, as so often happens, the loathing of elites has found an outlet in the loathing of outsiders, who look different and whose ways are strange.
This warning may seem strange.
This uncertainty is beginning to focus attention on the fundamental question of whether the EU can continue to choose its leaders in such a strange and furtive manner.
The next stage of the conversation is usually just as strange.
Here America found itself allied with some strange bedfellows that it normally rebukes as chronic human rights violators - Cuba, China, Iran, Libya, Sudan or Zimbabwe.
It may sound strange, but from the point of view of a humanitarian relief agency, it is not important on whose territory civilians in need are, as long as there is access to them.
True, Yeltsin is not the healthiest president Russia has ever had, but his actions in dismissing his government are neither strange nor the result of illness.
It may seem strange to describe the greatest financial crisis since the 1930's as a symptom of a bigger problem.

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