How to Use freakish in a Sentence

freakish

adjective

• There’s still the clowns, the jugglers, the almost freakish things.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2018
• McKinley is a freakish athlete with great speed off the edge.
  — Eddie Brown, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Then the maple leaves turn, the bluebird days give way to freakish weather swings, and your fishing, like the geese, heads south.
  — Popular Science, 26 Oct. 2020
• Like most first-round picks, Collins a freakish athlete.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2021
• Then, of course there's Garrett and his freakish ability to get around the edge.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• To them Trumpism is more than a freakish blight on the republic.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2017
• The Treenado is a freakish tree covered in tiny temples and LED lights.
  — The Economist, 15 Jan. 2020
• Most memorable of all, though, is his freakish barking in the prison cell.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2020
• Work is grinding to a halt and everything’s all weird and freakish.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2021
• Keep this one on hand for those freakish 90-plus days in September.
  — Diana Tsui, The Cut, 9 Aug. 2017
• Of course, silence changes the very nature of the Derby, known for a mix of the raucous and refined, the freakish and fashionable.
  — CBS News, 4 Sep. 2020
• If that doesn’t intrigue you, maybe this freakish, eight-foot-long sea creature will.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 29 Aug. 2022
• There are others, in his opinion, who have more freakish strength.
  — Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2022
• His freakish knee sprain at the bubble was a stark reminder of just how fragile the body can be, even for an elite athlete.
  — oregonlive, 15 Oct. 2020
• Presumably, none of this freakish array of stuff is being sold with the house.
  — Jeff Andrews, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2021
• Solomon Hill crashed into him, appeared to be freakish.
  — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021
• Clowney disrupts the run in freakish ways Pro Football Focus loves Clowney.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2021
• At 6-foot-2 and sporting a freakish 80-inch reach, Clark is fairly expected to stay out of harm's way and box on the outside.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Enquirer, 13 Mar. 2021
• Maybe the injuries, freakish or otherwise, have thrown them off track.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2020
• The Colts loved Paye’s athletic traits, his long arms and his power and his speed and his freakish change of direction.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2021
• His athleticism was even more freakish on the defensive end, where his prowess patrolling the paint changed the tenor of games.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• Not since Chelsea in 2012 has an English side won the competition, and that felt a little freakish.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• But there was nothing freakish about the pumpkins’ arrival.
  — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2021
• The Jaguars are betting on Walker’s freakish athletic traits to help transform one of the worst defenses in the league.
  — Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2022
• Still, there was no freakish cause to the seemingly unending rain.
  — Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 June 2017
• The power cuts out, a mysterious cloud lurks on the horizon, and freakish storms drop detritus from the sky.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2022
• The freakish cosmic weather causes the Covenant captain to make a bad move, the equivalent of taking the wrong exit on the freeway.
  — Seth Shostak, NBC News, 22 May 2017
• The discovery is magnificent, even if the sea pen looks a bit freakish sticking out of the sea’s sandy bottom.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
• Deborah Denise Henson spent much of her adult life in pain — the result of a freakish accident that left her with plates and screws in her back.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Aug. 2020
• The portraits were, to my mind, ugly and strange, but there was no denying a certain amount of freakish accuracy.
  — Sophie Haigney, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024