The word “strange” is an adjective meaning unusual, unfamiliar, or unexpected. Writers use it to describe things, people, or situations that seem out of the ordinary. The examples below are taken from authentic works to show how “strange” is used in real writing.
Real Examples
In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 158 characters
A strange feature about the tomb, where his body still lies, is that the massive door is equipped with a single, huge gold-plated spring lock which can be opened only from the inside.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
33 words, 183 characters
I cannot explain the phenomena; I can only set down here in the words of an ordinary soldier of fortune a chronicle of the strange events that befell me during the ten years that my dead body lay undiscovered in an Arizona cave.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
43 words, 228 characters
He seemed always to be laughing; and he entered into the sports of the children with the same hearty good fellowship he displayed toward those pastimes in which the men and women of his own age indulged; or he would sit for an hour at a time entertaining my old grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the world.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
64 words, 339 characters
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