Sentence examples for strange items from inspiring English sources

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He had a question about several strange items in her carry-on bag.

As the release date for the film version of Fifty Shades of Grey looms ever closer, increasingly strange items of merchandise are vying for fans' money.

Another said he found "marbles, pipes, ivory toothbrushes and combs, porcelain dolls' heads, dentures, cigarette holders, brass locks and many other strange items".

Aside from the obvious things, an assortment of strange items was on sale from cleaning fluids, to mops, water filters, stuffed toys and sausages... yes, sausages.

In between we found time for an amphibious duck tour around Boston, a field trip to the waste treatment plant at Deer Island, and we even introduced them to strange items of American cuisine, like the breakfast burrito.

Nick Paumgarten and Emily Nussbaum discuss the strange items that turned up while they sorted through their old offices, the challenges of writing at work, and the special place that offices occupy in modern culture.

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Also, prepare to have to explain away some very strange item combinations to some very confused cashiers.

mortar shell with stenciled Hebrew writing on it — a strange item to give a 14-year-old, and not particularly easy to smuggle into our apartment in a Muslim-majority neighborhood controlled by Bashir's enemies".

In New York and Philadelphia, it would seem, the Shostakovich is a welcome Trojan horse that will carry a new, unknown piece into the citadel of the suspicious audience, while in Los Angeles and in Ohio the Shostakovich, as the strange item itself, needs to be buffered by one of the most familiar Romantic concertos.

"In any case, this certainly is a strange item to be sold by Amazon".

In Zero Gravity Amy shows Sonic a strange item she has found, the Ark of the Cosmos, which the Babylon Rogues rival gang believes she stole.

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