Sentence examples for almost as strange from inspiring English sources
Almost as strange was the sight of Ben "Who?" Curtis winning The Open, after Thomas Bjorn choked at the death.
The director, Sara Driver, at first thought the call might be a joke, but for reasons almost as strange as fiction, she kept listening.
The drama, based on Itard's fictionalized account of the events, lies in the doctor's spiritual journey; it takes us a while to realize that Itard, a scientist experimenting on a human being, is almost as strange as his subject.
One thing is for sure: It would seem almost as strange for Mr. Uygur, Current's 7 p.m. anchor, and Ms. Granholm, the soon-to-be 9 p.m. anchor, to be sidelined completely from future election coverage as it was for Mr. Olbermann to be absent last week.
Rowe's announcement came three days after a YankeeNets meeting, in which members of the Nets' board of directors met with the Yankees' majority owner, George Steinbrenner, and was almost as strange as the ending of the 92-90 loss at Philadelphia, in which the Nets blew a 21-point lead.
In "Allusions in a Landscape," a 1954 essay, Gordimer wrote of South Africa, "The division of the people into two great races — black and white — and the subdivision of the white into Afrikaans- and English-speaking groups provides a diversity of cultural heritage that can make two South African children seem almost as strange to each other as if they had come from different countries".
Several years ago, I bought William Golding's The Spire from Priestpopple Books in Hexham (and yes, the shop is almost as pleasing and strange as its name).
The very idea that they could have grown up and struck out into the world on their own seems exotic, and so the stories of the children who married and settled almost next door feel as strange and involved as the stories of the children who cast themselves to the wind and are living half a globe away, doing jobs that didn't exist when they were born, or five years ago for that matter.
He writes that the vast distance between the macro views of space and the micro view of the body "endows the film with a strange circularity, almost as if the poles of the vertical line along which we have passed were bent to meet one another".
#proud daddy ☺️ The comments of Mr Bieber - at once embarrassing, creepy and just plain strange - were almost as awkward as the New York Daily News's high-minded feature that included full-frontal photos of the 21-year-old singer while he was on holiday in Bora Bora, in the South Pacific.
"With Barak there was this strange, instant comfort level, almost as if he could have already been my husband.
