Sentence examples for weird appearance from inspiring English sources

Some have a weird appearance," Mao Anping, a relative of Mao, told Xinhua, China's official news agency.

Terry Wogan used to mock it as the "Northampton Lighthouse", but its weird appearance – somewhere between an ancient statue and a concrete space rocket – seems to have have inspired local sci-fi writer Mark Gallard, whose Time to Repair is set in Northampton in 2262 when, some locals may be depressed to hear, the tower still stands.

Chris Ponting, at the Medical Research Council's functional genomics unit at Oxford University, said scientists had had the first chance to see if the platypus's weird appearance was reflected in its DNA: "Lo and behold, we saw genes like those in lizards and birds, as well as some like those in other mammals.

Krizek acknowledged there is a very small chance that radiation caused the daisies' weird appearance.

That's the long way of explaining Jon Hendren's weird appearance on HLN's The Daily Share, where the Twitter jokester who goes by the handle @fart switched gears halfway through a conversation with Yasmin Vossoughian about Edward Snowden and began talking about Edward Scissorhands.

Minutes before totality, the light takes on a weird flat, filmic appearance.

Like an endless Encyclopedia Brown story, the machine has been an ongoing source of curiosity and fear from locals for decades due to its weird location, outdated appearance and reputation for being continuously and strangely stocked by a seemingly non-existent operator.

Like an endless Encyclopedia Brown story, the machine has been an ongoing source of curiosity and fear from locals for decades due to its weird location, outdated appearance, and reputation for being continuously and strangely stocked by a seemingly non-existent operator.

The woman was hideous, and her sudden appearance and weird confidence made him want to run.

Dickens devotees will not soon forget that experience, nor the instruction the author wrote in an initialed note to Marcus Stone, the illustrator of "Our Mutual Friend," about a certain character's appearance: "A weird sharpness not without beauty, is the thing I want".

It was the element of surprise: the juxtaposition of her mundane appearance, her weird little wiggle and offbeat humour with the sheer, life-affirming determination of her dreams that made a nation of viewers wipe a silent tear as they reached for a cuppa and a digestive round the telly.