Sentence examples for strange on the from inspiring English sources

Tan's low-key, open-ended, enigmatic stories are often about coming at a forbidding world from a fresh angle, making it strange on the way to making it one's own — an experience that children share with immigrants and with artists.

Here's a gothic tale for a stormy night: a man called Meredith converts a room in his house into a cluttered and untidy study, and one day asks a visiting friend if he can see anything strange on the ceiling.

Words sound strange on the tongue, gestures clumsy.

This seems strange on the face of it.

But it was back the next time; it looked strange on the toilet paper, too red.

Luna was at their mother's house and sounded strange on the phone.

Say it to yourself: the word seems strange and foreign on the tongue.

I say strange because on the one hand it was upbeat, rocking out and familiar.

Hook-up culture creates a strange binary: on the one hand, students are having casual sex.

Taronga, however, has something other zoos don't: native animals that are arguably the strangest on the planet.

If you have dark hair, silver glasses may look strange on you, the same as black glasses may look weird on someone with blonde hair.