Sentence examples for in a funny sort from inspiring English sources

He was so optimistic in a funny sort of way.

And that's what the Web does in a funny sort of way".

It's just the centre of London, which makes it like showing in a gallery, in a funny sort of way.

"They have in a funny sort of way benefited," said James McCamant, publisher of The Medical Technology Stock Letter.

In a funny sort of way, I couldn't see why everyone was getting quite so worked up about it".

In a funny sort of way, it doesn't matter if that particular zealot was in his bedroom or in a faraway land.

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"We think of ourselves as a body with a spirit in it," his essay begins, "or a body with a soul in it, or a body with a mind in it … It is a funny sort of superstition.

I worked out where these characters would have taken a holiday, then I found an actual hotel, then I imagined them taking tea in it.… It's a funny sort of hop-skip-dance between researching and guessing and rashly inventing, always switching between one and the other, to make the story your own, so that it isn't heavy with fake history.

The Blair government seems to be making exactly the same calculation.It is a funny sort of peace in which people are regularly maimed and driven from their homes by paramilitary thugs.

This might be a route out of acquisitiveness – but I can't help thinking there is a consumerist impulse behind it, a funny sort of reverse consumerism, in which the real prize is to reclaim the space that purchases once occupied.