Sentence examples for strange substance from inspiring English sources

A strange substance called "white sauce" cropped up again and again.

Water would seem a strange substance if we lived at pressures near the critical point (it is anyway, but not because of this particular critical point).

For example, a picture made for Twain's "Mysterious Stranger," above, shows an astrologer pouring a strange substance into a bottle surrounded by a group of amazed onlookers.

Descartes believed that the mind was composed of a strange substance that was not physical but that interacted with the material of the brain by means of the pineal gland.

One such Yangkang-based source said: "For about two months at the end of last year there was talk that the South Korean Choco Pies contained some strange substance, and then there were none in the markets.

That disk-within-a-sphere picture suggests that the solar system may be cartwheeling through space with an accompanying fog of the strange substance, which could make it easier for researchers to spot dark-matter particles using supersensitive underground detectors.

If unifying themes exist they are music, dancing, animals, absent parent, and eating strange substances.

In other words, ladies, stop trying to clean your hot pockets by filling them with strange substances, herbal or otherwise.

In heavy infestations (which may involve more than 500 larvae), the general symptoms include pallor of the skin and mucous membranes, fluid retention in the face and extremities, constipation alternating with diarrhea, abdominal tenderness, increased appetite for bulky or strange substances (e.g., clay), delayed puberty and stunted growth, fatigue, dullness, and apathy.

One of the first scientific bits of insight came over a century ago, when one of psychology's great pioneers -- the insanely patient cognitive psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus -- pulled a move from the Mad Scientist's Handbook, and ran massive experiments on his own brain, not with strange substances, but with strange syllables.

One of the first scientific bits of insight came over a century ago, when one of psychology's great pioneers -- the insanely patient cognitive psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus -- pulled a move from the Mad Scientist's Handbook,  and ran massive experiments on his own brain, not with strange substances, but with strange syllables.