Sentence examples for something of a strange from inspiring English sources

Amway is something of a strange partner for a baseball team.

Over the last two weeks, the naturalized Pakistani immigrant charged with driving a crude car bomb into Times Square settled into something of a strange daily routine: He signed a piece of paper waiving his right to a lawyer and a speedy court appearance.

7.29pm BST 11th over: England 40-1 (Carberry 27, Root 11) Faulkner, over whom I've developed something of a strange cricketing man-crush over the past few weeks (feel free to offer any of your own, odd or otherwise), comes into the attack.

Since it premiered at the New York Film Festival last month, Laura Poitras' "Citizenfour," about the dramatic life and choices of Edward Snowden, has been something of a strange bird.

One 19th-century British explorer and naval captain, Henry Craven St John, described the fair-skinned Ainu as "something like a strange drop of oil in the Ocean, being surrounded by Mongols [including Japanese] yet not one of them".

It did so in an unconventional, associative and piecemeal way: what kept the reader tied to the page was not the scant plot (Corbett regards plot as something of a distraction), but the strange beauty of Anthony's voice.

At its best, this thoroughly odd affair has something of the strange charm of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, which similarly dramatised a delusional narrative and asked the audience to figure out the "truth" for themselves.

Still, Sabonis's most famous escapade — in a career that featured many — was to become, in a strange way, something of a harbinger for Lithuania's basketball future.

Indeed, Mr. Schwarzenegger, usually magnetic and capable of charming an entire ballroom, has appeared on the campaign trail as something of a nervous hen venturing into a strange barn.

Indeed, Freud was becoming their new kind of good listener, and their champion; someone who could get, who could make something of, their strange ways of speaking.

To understand how and why we are now governed as we are, you need to know something of that strange place.