Sentence examples for it were strange from inspiring English sources

William James, in his last great work Some Problems of Philosophy, wrote that philosophy 'sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar.

Asked if it were strange that a defendant could be asked to remove her veil in court while judges wore wigs and gowns, she replied: "I am not in favour of barristers or judges wearing wigs.

Wednesday, in yet another interview, he spoke as if it were strange that people thought he was insinuating anything, since what I have never done is taken the position that Obama was born in Kenya or Indonesia or anywhere other than Hawaii, where he claims to have been born.

William James (1979 [1911], 11) said that philosophy "sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar".

And it is strange.

It's strange".

"It is strange.

"Will it be strange?

So it's strange".

It was strange.

LAHOUSEN: It is strange.