The phrase "a strange example of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to highlight something unusual or unexpected that serves as an illustration of a particular concept or phenomenon.
Example: "The artist's latest work is a strange example of modern surrealism, blending reality with dreamlike elements."
Alternatives: "an unusual instance of" or "a peculiar case of".
It's a strange example of the Wall's idiosyncrasies.
A small incense burner in the form of a seated, Buddha-like figure -- whose widely grinning mouth is lined with tiny teeth made of red stoneware -- is a strange example of what was then called red porcelain.
While he does represent many of the peccadillos we're party to in the UK – an old man whose Tourette-like jabbering of every racial, ethnic and gender trope going being indicative of sea changes in the cultural subconscious – he is also a strange example of someone with the world at their feet who seemingly refuses it with a breath-taking gracelessness.
A particularly strange example of this is his 2008 opinion in the case of Baze v. Rees, in which the majority upheld the use of the three-drug "cocktail" in lethal injections.
Was this a strange example ofchance or something more hideous?
In another strange example of his priorities, Mr. Ashcroft last month sent federal agents to raid a Los Angeles center that supplied marijuana to desperately ill people under a state law allowing medical use.
Perhaps he'd even become one of them in some strange example of cultural Stockholm syndrome, walking among them now like Ed Norton at the end of American History X, denying his hateful past.
It was one of these strange examples of two blurring worlds, playing out in front of us.
Along with the silly statues, the bogus exhibits and Abe's get-rich-quick tips, Mr. Ferguson includes some genuinely touching, if strange, examples of Lincoln love.
The strangest example of a star's twinkling was described this week by two astronomers at the Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets conference in Washington, DC.
The strangest example of publicity dissonance was that which accompanied the release of James Cameron's gigantic blockbuster Titanic (1997).
