Sentence examples for strange variety from inspiring English sources

Although it's not a downloadable application and only accessible through a Web browser, Joost offers free streaming movies and a strange variety of cartoons.

As for literary fiction, more and more of the interesting and strange variety — the labors of love on which famous editors like Robert Giroux, Maxwell Perkins and Barney Rosset once placed their bets — may migrate to smaller presses.

I'm going for the Catshead cooker having learned that the squat tree in my garden isn't a strange variety of quince after all but an ancient English apple, perfect for a piquant sauce.

It suffers perennially from water and electricity cuts; limbless ex-soldiers beg at every crossroads; tribes of street children have established small roadside industries selling matches, cigarettes, soap and a strange variety of cheap household goods from China.

Many others who met her made similar comments, including Lucy Clifford, a novelist, who said that Eliot did, indeed, look like a horse — "a strange variety of horse that was full of knowledge, and beauty of thought, and mysteries of which the human being had no conception".

We always recommend using a sexual lubricant with our sex toys and often hear about a varied and strange variety of substances that people use as lubricants, from butter and margarine, to hand cream, vegetable and massage oils, baby oil, petroleum jelly (Vaseline) and saliva.

McGinley prints these excellent photographs, as ever, in studiously low resolution, which imbues the white of the snow and ice with strange chromatic variety.

The FX45 may represent the best value in a strange new variety of crossover SUV the sports car disguised as a utility vehicle.

Now, Bernard Sabiti, a Ugandan cultural commentator has recorded these colloquialisms in a new book which attempts to unlock what he calls "one of the funniest and strangest English varieties in the world".

Further ingredients for a really excellent seasonal show were "snow" – albeit of a strange light-entertainment variety as opposed to the sort that blocked motorways and caused school closures – and large quantities of tinsel.

"I have a strange relationship to variety," the singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt said recently, as he sat at a West Village cafe meticulously tearing a croissant into little bits.