Sentence examples for a time of strange from inspiring English sources

It was a time of strange peace that the war had given.

In flashbacks, she recalls a time of strange events, when a "great disturbance in the world made its way like creeping mist or dampness".

But Samsung persevered and Apple followed suit and now we enter the era of the phablet, a time of strange portents and weird UIs.

For the youngest readers, going to school is a time of separation, of strange new routines and the introduction to concepts like assembling in line and following directions without resorting to violence or tears.

With or without a history of depression, pregnancy isn't necessarily a time of "cooing at strange babies in the street and gleefully learning how to knit tiny hats" (as Ms. Grose puts it).

It was a time of bewildering contradictions and strange, irrational prejudices.

And yet, at a time of fast-melting glaciers and strange rains, of spreading deserts and rising seas, it is a frail and distant promise.

If an oil company losing money at a time of soaring oil prices sounds strange, then the hedging strategies at other companies, or the lack thereof, might seem even more alarming and indicative of how unpredictable energy prices have become.

Although lynching was already on the decline by the time of Strange Fruit – the grotesque photograph of a double hanging which moved Meeropol to pick up his pen had been taken in Indiana in 1930 – it remained the most vivid symbol of American racism, a stand-in for all the more subtle forms of discrimination affecting the black population.

Such major growth plans at a time of economic uncertainty might initially seem strange, but the Hoxton is known for offering 'budget luxury' - with upmarket rooms for as little as £1 a night - and is thriving in the current climate as executives tighten their belts.

It was a time of justified paranoia, commingled with a strange sense of possibility because, despite being greeted with hostility by our host nation, my family and I had survived civil war.