How to Use weirdly in a Sentence
weirdly
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That has weirdly prepared me to use a mic in this way in the studio.
— Stephen Daw, Billboard, 24 Nov. 2023 -
And, weirdly, no one ever seemed to shoot off guns there, not even on New Year’s Eve.
— Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024 -
The hills were weirdly quiet, as though the roads still belonged to nature.
— Ottessa Moshfegh, The New Yorker, 6 July 2023 -
At times, Putin seems weirdly out of touch with the realities of his war.
— Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023 -
The center was textured, weirdly rippled like the surface of a tiny brain or coral.
— Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 June 2024 -
Landlord reserves the right to be weirdly nice to Tenant a couple of times.
— Sam Spero, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023 -
And weirdly, she and Rachel are both associated with Dior and met at that thing in Paris for the first time.
— Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023 -
But this weirdly warm winter left the Great Lakes nearly devoid of ice.
— Todd Richmond, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024 -
That was a weirdly stale series of jokes about the Kardashians and O.J. Simpson.
— Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2023 -
My advice is to use the time to think why your family was — is — so weirdly intent on putting you in your place.
— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023 -
Everything about the fourth film feels weirdly distant and off somehow; slathered in a CG haze.
— James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2023 -
The cilantro volunteers everywhere and, weirdly, loves the cold.
— Bon Appétit, 3 May 2024 -
But even the live-laugh-love stuff is weirdly incoherent.
— Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023 -
All three mains end up dead, but the truth, of course, still outs—and, in the process, puts a weirdly heroic spin on Price's Unbreakable-era atrocities.
— Megan McCluskey, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024 -
The Dunkin’ Donuts inside the venue weirdly does not sell donuts, but thankfully, there’s plenty of coffee.
— Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024 -
Lumpy and weirdly shaped plants are a reminder of what can still grow under harsh conditions.
— Eviana Hartman Philip Cheung Bette Adams, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023 -
What his work reminds me of the most, weirdly enough, is certain examples of post-punk manga.
— Gyasi Hall, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2023 -
As the years have progressed, it’s been fun to see all of this become a little bit more mainstream and weirdly accepted as fact.
— Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023 -
There is something weirdly refreshing about not showing the coming out of it all.
— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Aug. 2023 -
The first skit of the night, starring him and Heidi Gardner as weirdly frisky customers in a bank robbery, also ended with Brolin in his undies.
— Shania Russell, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2024 -
The weirdly close timing simply allowed both bikes to be shown at Rouleur, London’s high-end cycling show.
— Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023 -
Watching this adult woman scoop her own vomit out of the tub is...weirdly comforting?
— Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 July 2023 -
There’s weirdly little to suggest — let alone state outright — that this will be a musical.
— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023 -
But, weirdly, the creation of particles that make something is the exception.
— Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023 -
For a series about a rise to power, details of that rise go weirdly unspecified.
— Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 29 Feb. 2024 -
My mum inspired my style, Twilight and Harry Potter inspire me a lot, weirdly.
— Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Apr. 2023 -
But, no, weirdly enough, the ‘80s aspect of this movie was less about referencing or footnoting things than getting the story right for me.
— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2024 -
The atheist’s point of view is weirdly sustained through the imagination of other people and their beliefs.
— Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2023 -
My young tree leafed-out weirdly this season, with some leaves looking normal and others being twisted and a bit paler yellow-green.
— Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 19 June 2023 -
What could've been a just-for-fans Easter egg is actually a charming, weirdly abstract short.
— Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2024
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