How do you use the word "strange" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "strange": Sometimes he can be a strange guy. It is strange that you should fail.

Strange Meaning

/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjNot normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.

adjUnfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.

Sentence Examples

Sometimes he can be a strange guy.

It is strange that you should fail.

A strange thing happened this morning.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

funny other odd

Antonyms:

native familiar

CEFR Practice Quiz

The old house had a ____ smell that no one could identify.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We heard a ____ noise coming from the attic, like someone was walking around in the middle of the night.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin -āneus Latin extrāneusder. Old French estrange Anglo-Norman estraungebor. Middle English straunge English strange From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?" — 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

"Sated at length, ere long I might perceave / Strange alteration in me, to degree / Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech / Wanted not long, though to this shape retain’d." — 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 598-601:

"When you're strange / Faces come out of the rain / When you're strange / No one remembers your name" — 1967, Robby Krieger, Jim Morrison, “People Are Strange”, performed by The Doors:

"[…] here is the hand and seal of the duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you." — c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

"'I'm sure I should have never mentioned anything of the kind to three strange gentlemen if you hadn't dragged it out of me.'" — 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 105:

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