Sentence examples for a bizarre bit from inspiring English sources

In a bizarre bit of literary artifice, Fuller uses quotation marks for white dialogue but not black.

In a bizarre bit of banking, Afghanistan's currency is printed by the Taliban's remaining opposition, the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani, who unceremoniously fled Kabul in 1996.

Or it can admit, at least privately, that the talks are simply a bizarre bit of bartering in which America (and now other countries) fork over money, oil and other things in return for empty promises.

Formerly a columnist for The Guardian, Cleave is the author of two previous novels, "Incendiary" and "Little Bee," whose career in fiction began with a bizarre bit of calendrical happenstance.

It is perhaps a crass observation, but true, that the earthquake, at least in the short term, provided a bizarre bit of political fortune for the mayor, who will seek re-election this fall.

Still, the inspector general report says that the Iraqi government has not been inclined to pay for the connections to individual homes and, in a bizarre bit of city planning, has proposed that individual homeowners connect their lines.

Though it seemed a bit like a bizarre piece of performance art, JMom got a fair bit of media attention when it was launched in 2010 by a pair of Jewish siblings and their programmer friend.

The hearing on Monday took a bit of a bizarre turn as lawyers for the various co-conspirators stood up to argue that their clients' names should not be part of the public record, with several referring to their clients as "Mr. X" or client "Y".

It was a tantalizingly bizarre bit of news: the original AP story offered no clues as to the vandal's motive, but also alluded, somewhat mysteriously, to other library books that had been found slathered with ketchup and corn syrup.

And, just as last year, we have come up with a shortlist of the most bizarre bits of boffinry and the wackiest widgets to have featured in the pages of The Economist in the preceding twelve months.

HONG KONG -- It must count as one of the more bizarre bits of diplomacy in recent times.