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  • The moment the cover had been removed, they had started jabbering and rocketing around, rattling the bars and making bizarre faces at the people nearest them.†   (source)
  • After a mile or so they arrived at a bizarre encampment, where some two hundred people had gathered to spend the winter living out of their vehicles.†   (source)
  • "They look bizarre," I said.†   (source)
  • After that night with Benson, and that bizarre reenactment, he'd been certain Edgar had found it once already.†   (source)
  • This is all so bizarre.†   (source)
  • These were bizarre views for my bleeding-heart grandma.†   (source)
  • He thinks long and hard about his reply to this bizarre request.†   (source)
  • As a columnist wrote in the Chicago Tribune, Cassie "was tried and executed by a peer who represented, in some bizarre way, a youth culture steeped in violence and death."†   (source)
  • Thomas suddenly felt dizzy, his eyes flickering between the boys and the bizarre place in which he'd found himself.†   (source)
  • On the few occasions that Halliday agreed to do interviews, his behavior came off as bizarre, even by game-designer standards.†   (source)
  • And there are indecencies even more bizarre: onanists breaking a sweat on monkeys, ponies, birds; a religious freak who cut a snake's head off; a deranged man who took to urinating in an elk's mouth.†   (source)
  • As Langdon stared at the bizarre image, his initial revulsion and shock gave way to a sudden upwelling of anger.†   (source)
  • It was a bizarre mix of rigidity and calm.†   (source)
  • The more unusual or bizarre the person was, the more "interesting" they would become in Walter's parlance.†   (source)
  • Bizarre sensations bombarded Cole as his body was dragged and bumped across the rocks.†   (source)
  • If anything, she was absorbed in Rhonda's bizarre appearance and hardly glanced at the test as she took it.†   (source)
  • We found ourselves looking forward to coming to school, to seeing what bizarre antic she'd be up to.†   (source)
  • And they were without doubt the most bizarre collection of buildings I'd ever seen.†   (source)
  • That one was so bizarre, I drew a comic about it: I guess you could say I've got a love-hate relationship with fortune cookies.†   (source)
  • And that fact of life had created a bizarre new world of industrial espionage.†   (source)
  • ONE BENEFIT, WHICH I HAVE LOST, Of a life where many things go unsaid, is that you don't have to remember things about yourself that are too bizarre to imagine.†   (source)
  • As for joining the priesthood, that was a favorite expression of Harriet Wheelwright's; it was always made in connection with some insupportable foolishness, some self-created difficulty, some action as inhuman as it was bizarre.†   (source)
  • My face must have a funny look, because Mary Webb manages to say, before the waiter comes to our table, "This can't be new or bizarre to you.†   (source)
  • They all swear at him-a bizarre greeting practiced by athletic boys with zits.†   (source)
  • And if that's not bizarre enough, every record that they set with Antoine on the team has been nullified, too.†   (source)
  • It would have seemed too bizarre to be true.†   (source)
  • Your usage would sound distinctly bizarre, even to a man who was not with the Royal Artillery.†   (source)
  • Spencer hoped that was just some bizarre English expression.†   (source)
  • He was all of those things, a bizarre cross-pollination of subcultures possible only in South Florida.†   (source)
  • In a more bizarre case both a mother and a father each killed a child and hid their bodies for a period of four years.†   (source)
  • We present acts both frightening and bizarre, acts you can find nowhere else in the world.†   (source)
  • Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a fina and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God.†   (source)
  • The most bizarre stories are making the rounds, yet most of them are really true.†   (source)
  • "God, that's so bizarre," she says when I finish.†   (source)
  • He was half a head taller than me; along with jungle boots and bizarre old fatigues with the knees busted out, he was wearing a ratted-up black T-shirt with a snowboarding logo, Never Summer in white gothic letters.†   (source)
  • This whole situation was shooting off in bizarre directions.†   (source)
  • He sympathized with Monkey's bizarre needs, knowing that Monkey was not the only one to blame for the three rape-murders in his past.†   (source)
  • Dad's strange behavior had taken a turn onto Bizarre Boulevard.†   (source)
  • Somehow I had won a round in a bizarre mental contest.†   (source)
  • Then, suddenly, it's black and you feel like you're in the middle of a swirling mineshaft, or maybe the rinse cycle in a bizarre washing machine that uses sand instead of water.†   (source)
  • Ruth May had the bizarre idea that our neighbors desired to eat her.†   (source)
  • Next to this was a third skeleton, and it seemed some sort of bizarre combination of the two.†   (source)
  • She was witness to bizarre sights: three homeless albinos living in Golden Gate Park. a BMW suddenly swallowed up by an ancient septic tank in Woodside, a loose buffalo strolling down Taraval Street.†   (source)
  • And I realize now just how bizarre this whole situation is.†   (source)
  • Hyperion light seeped through the pod wall, making the bizarre tableau appear to be staged underwater-or, thought the Consul, in a cathedral.†   (source)
  • All morning I was dreading lunch, fearing his bizarre glares.†   (source)
  • When he drove away from his home in Chicago he had to wonder who was going to pay for his bizarre enterprise.†   (source)
  • It is all so bizarre I think perhaps I dreamt it, but there are ski marks on the snow from the landing gear of the plane.†   (source)
  • Proposals got more and more bizarre.†   (source)
  • Of course it's awful when a person has a coughing fit that sounds like he's trying to bring up a whole lung, but the sufferer of tuberculosis often acquires a sort of bizarre beauty.†   (source)
  • When the water fell again, it left a wide swath of bizarre, bejeweled seaweed—blue, and green, and, in a certain light, iridescent.†   (source)
  • But that wasn't the bizarre part.†   (source)
  • She really likes the idea of living in a world where someone like Ng can get off calling someone else bizarre.†   (source)
  • The current high levels of ground beef contamination, combined with the even higher levels of poultry contamination, have led to some bizarre findings.†   (source)
  • It was all very bizarre.†   (source)
  • Officer Walker, a Vietnam vet, said the bizarre scene reminded him of helicopter crews throwing Vietcong suspects out the door.†   (source)
  • There were earrings and bracelets and strands of beads tossed everywhere, mixed with the spilled, strewn food like some kind of bizarre salad.†   (source)
  • Even her professors were a little wary of her—her bizarre, impractical building plans, presented on cheap brown paper, her indifference to their passionate critiques.†   (source)
  • Tables of cheap paperbacks dissolved into matchwood, and slivers of paper filled the air with bizarre confetti.†   (source)
  • The Sensor's buttons didn't have numbers on them, just more of those bizarre symbols, and there was no screen.†   (source)
  • In this utterly bizarre facsimile of reality, I feel as though I could just politely bid them both good-bye, walk across the room and out into the safety of the street.†   (source)
  • The classmate and his fiancée, alarmed by the bizarre behavior, couldn't get Nathaniel to stop disrobing.†   (source)
  • "This is bizarre," I say.†   (source)
  • Nick has all sorts of bizarre things on his computer, and sometimes I can't resist a little light snooping—it gives me a clue as to what my husband is thinking.†   (source)
  • Some of her thoughts bordered on the bizarre, contemplating something, anything, just to have peace and to get herself out of the nightmare.†   (source)
  • What makes it important not to shut up about him was that he used this skill in such a bizarre and yet meaningful way.†   (source)
  • Later, when other pastors in my district got wind of it, they started calling me Pastor Job, after the man in the biblical book of the same name who was struck with a series of increasingly bizarre symptoms.†   (source)
  • I even tried my best to indulge her increasingly bizarre and irrational behavior.†   (source)
  • She couldn't go on letting her worry this way, although it was completely nutty of her to think that just because someone had a slightly bizarre idea he must be on something.†   (source)
  • She went to a special school for making hats in New York and every day she wore a new hat to work, constructed by her own hands out of bits of straw or fur or ribbon or veiling in subtle, bizarre shades.†   (source)
  • …and she was startled, and wondered how this could be, how she could both read this news and be this news, and how the newspaper could have published this image of her instantaneously, and she looked about for a photographer, and she had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past, and she almost felt that if she got up and walked home at this moment there would be two Nadias,…†   (source)
  • But for the moment she left her face like a bizarre white mask and asked Auntie to paint the back of her neck.†   (source)
  • Did he somehow find out a kid was coming here who had the same name as the warden, the man who had performed bizarre experiments on him?†   (source)
  • Going up to Cange, which was back then a truly awful place compared to Mirebalais, was for me, bizarrely, a relief.†   (source)
  • The Second World War did something to Maycomb: its boys who came back returned with bizarre ideas about making money and an urgency to make up for lost time.†   (source)
  • The job I was offered, and which inexplicably I agreed to do, is without doubt the most bizarre assignment I've ever undertaken.†   (source)
  • The last thing I want is for someone to find me out here, frozen solid in a sitting position like some bizarre ice sculpture.†   (source)
  • It is a bizarre scene.†   (source)
  • "Quite a bizarre place," Inigo said, moving past several large cages in which were cheetahs and hummingbirds and other swift things.†   (source)
  • My heart did an unexpected flip, startled by his bizarrely attractive smile.†   (source)
  • Into it, a priest deposited the hilt of a bizarre implement: a single-edged weapon, two and a half feet long, with a full tang, scale grips, a vestigial crossguard, and a broad, flat blade that widened and was scalloped near the end, a shape reminiscent of a dragon wing.†   (source)
  • Two of the men reported severe dissociative trance like states during which violent and bizarre behavior was seen, while the other two reported less severe, and perhaps less well-organized, amnesiac episodes.†   (source)
  • This scene was so bizarre that I felt myself nearing panic A renegade in this faraway land, a helpless pawn now at the mercy of people who were, themselves, outlaws within their own sinister country, I cried out silently for help.†   (source)
  • It certainly seemed bizarre to my guards, who said I would not need a law degree where I was going.†   (source)
  • I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.†   (source)
  • From where I sit on the field, he's a bizarre specter, so frail and ashen.†   (source)
  • They were twisted into bizarre shapes.†   (source)
  • The streets in America were bizarrely smooth.†   (source)
  • Then it was so bizarre she couldn't believe it.†   (source)
  • And then something truly bizarre happened.†   (source)
  • Weird images keep flashing through my head, a bizarre fantasy reel of warm things.†   (source)
  • It wasn't that I had no interest in hearing all about the bizarre traditions and habits they'd managed to form in the two weeks since escaping their camp; I was exhausted with trying to figure out why, exactly, those two were able to cling to the thin thread that bound their friendship together.†   (source)
  • In a bizarre day, this was the most surprising thing yet.†   (source)
  • I began to imagine the entire town was some sort of bizarre experimental prison camp without walls—a punishment center where criminals were sentenced to living only with other criminals.†   (source)
  • Some of the changes are purely, if bizarrely, aesthetic.†   (source)
  • Despite (or perhaps because of) the bizarre romantic situation with Nora, I knew I needed to get out of Northampton and do something.†   (source)
  • Then, when Zainab was a university student, her mother abruptly and bizarrely pushed Zainab into a marriage with an Iraqi man living in America.†   (source)
  • How bizarre!†   (source)
  • Bizarre killings amused them, unless of course the victim was one of their own.†   (source)
  • "Benjamin Thomas Parish, that was the sweetest and most bizarre compliment anyone's ever given me."†   (source)
  • It's still such a bizarre and beautiful word for me, to have a home where I can come and go, a place where people actually like me.†   (source)
  • The shock of actual combat triggered bizarre thoughts and behavior.†   (source)
  • Cute really, in a bizarre way.†   (source)
  • So this was all some bizarre coincidence, right?†   (source)
  • When Alba asked to hear these bizarre stories again, Blanca could not repeat them, for she had forgotten them.†   (source)
  • The hubbub began to subside slowly as Major — de Coverley paused in the doorway with a frown of puzzled disapproval, as though viewing something bizarre.†   (source)
  • The hearings left Thomas dazed and stumbling into an afterlife of bizarre duality: as both the most powerful black man in America and a walking, grimacing Rorschach on wrenching issues of race and gender.†   (source)
  • No. Vlad moved down the steps and out the gate, leaving Otis and his bizarre ideas behind.†   (source)
  • Totally bizarre.†   (source)
  • Tomas had been a window washer for nearly two years when he was sent to a new customer whose bizarre appearance struck him the moment he saw her.†   (source)
  • He clutched his belly and strained in a bizarre imitation of parturition.†   (source)
  • Some of them were full of sayings that would be familiar to anyone who's gone to Sunday school …. and some of them, to be honest, were really bizarre.†   (source)
  • And your father, with his bizarre silence—which I still couldn't understand, no matter how often I thought about it—is torturing your soul.†   (source)
  • The witnesses are in general agreement that he seemed like himself, nothing bizarre or strange.†   (source)
  • Why the bizarre desire to kill Anaander Mianaai?†   (source)
  • The newspaper gave me time and opportunity to tell stories about everything from poachers in the beautiful, mysterious Everglades to the bizarre case of a woman who had been beaten and brain-damaged by an attacker seventeen years in the past, but it only became a murder case when she finally died from a seizure brought on by her injuries.†   (source)
  • He was in the grip of a bizarre compulsion.†   (source)
  • Mattie sat up in bed, gripped the receiver, and tried to follow these new words as they came flying out of the receiver and spun bizarre patterns in her head.†   (source)
  • He'd been afraid he wouldn't be able to get it back on, and no matter what happened, he told himself, he didn't want to face his destiny tucking his stump into his sleeve and clutching the hook in his remaining hand like some sort of bizarre athletic trophy.†   (source)
  • Just totally bizarre stuff, which was what made it reminiscent of the Ole Miss game from the previous year.†   (source)
  • Max considered this and arrived at a bizarre conclusion.†   (source)
  • But this was just bizarre.†   (source)
  • The Institute, romantic and bizarre, was the city of Charleston's shrine to Southern masculinity.†   (source)
  • And it's enough to make me believe something totally bizarre happened to Bobby.†   (source)
  • It shows the coating of grime on the angels and lends a fierce brightness to the bizarre panel of a lone warrior angel beside a severed gorgon's head.†   (source)
  • After about ten minutes he still isn't over this bizarre motive for the visit.†   (source)
  • She's completely bizarre.†   (source)
  • "Ser Axell might serve for Shireen's father, but in my experience, the more bizarre and shocking a tale the more apt it is to be repeated.†   (source)
  • It's bizarre, but I think it's real.†   (source)
  • This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising.†   (source)
  • Our conversation, already bizarre enough, has taken on an even weirder note, thanks to the musical accompaniment.†   (source)
  • And so it is, on Good Friday 1865, that a series of bizarre occurrences will take place.†   (source)
  • The idea, by the way, that evolution is not a "good story" is so bizarre as to be incredible to anyone who knows the history of the reception of evolutionary theory; it was such a good story that, published by Darwin in November, by Christmas every half-educated person in England was telling it, in shock or excitement.†   (source)
  • For over ten years, I've been traveling every day to this bizarre world of lies and deceit.†   (source)
  • He now leaned forward, mesmerized by the bizarre story.†   (source)
  • "We are, after all, potentially dangerous locals with bizarre and disgusting customs," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • The pilot, having been thoroughly trained in the demands of military security, mastered his rampant curiosity as to the nature and purpose of my bizarre outfit and contented himself with the gloomy comment that he "doubted if the old crate could get airborne, with all that lot aboard."†   (source)
  • I envisioned all sorts of bizarre things happening to me.†   (source)
  • Even as I spent bizarre amounts of time scrutinizing a poem I've said to myself, "This is not normal, this may be a little freakish."†   (source)
  • So, in a bizarre sense, Dr. King, who had seemed so defeated and who had died without much hope that his philosophy of nonviolent resistance had accomplished anything, became the mainspring for a whole new way of thinking among black people and, in the long run, averted violent head-on collision between the citizens of this country.†   (source)
  • "You know, blokes," remarked one of the girls, a long-waisted, brown-haired lovely in a black knit leotard and pointed sneakers, "this all has a most bizarre resemblance to that ill, ill Jacobean revenge play we went to last week."†   (source)
  • Naturally, almost to preserve my reason, I have to think of some rationale to explain her bizarre behavior.†   (source)
  • HELEN is scowling, the lips under her fingertips moving in ghostly silence, growing more and more frantic, until in a bizarre rage she bites at her own fingers.†   (source)
  • My costume for traveling was utilitarian if a trifle bizarre.†   (source)
  • What was the true function of their triangle in this bizarre case?†   (source)
  • He had been too tired the night before to take notice of their camp site - it had been simply a place to go to sleep in; but now, the scenery's bizarre grandeur caught his imagination.†   (source)
  • But secretly he thought to himself: This Siddhartha is a bizarre person, he expresses bizarre thoughts, his teachings sound foolish.†   (source)
  • A freak of Nature, perhaps, some bizarre caprice, an extravagant joke, a game—who knows?†   (source)
  • Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene.   (source)
  • I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.   (source)
    bizarre = unusual
  • Every breath, every sigh in the room was like an explosion compared to the bizarre haze of quiet.†   (source)
  • This is one of the most bizarre things that's happened to me, ever.†   (source)
  • Everyone else seemed too transfixed by Moody's bizarre appearance to do more than stare at him.†   (source)
  • 'It's bizarre,' said Fred, frowning around at it.†   (source)
  • The madman's bizarre choice of words was starting to feel more relevant now.†   (source)
  • It was bizarre how much of the king and Maxon I could see in the way he stood.†   (source)
  • Langdon studied CERN's director, still trying to process the bizarre surroundings.†   (source)
  • What he was seeing was too bizarre to be sane.†   (source)
  • It's one of those bizarre things we have to deal with.†   (source)
  • The suits and shirts and ties seemed bizarre to Jimmy, especially if he was mildly stoned.†   (source)
  • In the early morning light, I see a bizarre spectacle.†   (source)
  • A muffled boom announced that the bizarre elevator had arrived.†   (source)
  • They see lots of test tubes and bizarre equipment and people running around making discoveries.†   (source)
  • Collet pondered the implications of this bizarre development.†   (source)
  • At the time I saw Mom's bizarre behavior as the consequence of her divorce from Bob.†   (source)
  • Thomas was enjoying her being so close, but it seemed so bizarre and out of the blue.†   (source)
  • And it's so bizarre, even for Finnick, that I stay my hand.†   (source)
  • "And when I died, I'd be some bizarre footnote—a freak show.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, there was such a bizarre coincidence that Salander's antennae instantly buzzed.†   (source)
  • Jace was looking at Simon as if he were some bizarre species of insect.†   (source)
  • His circumstances were as bizarre as mine, and very lucky—we agree on that.†   (source)
  • She just shook her head, as if nothing about my bizarre world could surprise her anymore.†   (source)
  • The flower sat there, opening and closing its petals, like some bizarre, many-lipped oyster.†   (source)
  • Ron, who had been gazing at Harry, said, "You don't know how bizarre it is to see Goyle thinking."†   (source)
  • The whole situation was a little bizarre, and then running into you in front of my house later ….†   (source)
  • It was bizarre, to see the bedrooms numbered and locked.†   (source)
  • All white kids looked alike; and they were all bizarrely enthusiastic and friendly.†   (source)
  • There was a fleeting instant of hesitation as everyone's eyes took in the bizarre image.†   (source)
  • The debris was everywhere and bizarre—tires, refrigerators, tricycles, couches, a straw hat.†   (source)
  • After a while, the bizarre came to seem natural.†   (source)
  • 'Yeah,' said Malfoy who, bizarrely, seemed to draw courage and comfort from Dumbledore's praise.†   (source)
  • In spite of I such bizarre behavior, Mr. Geoffrey and My Lord retained a great affection for Bertie.†   (source)
  • That sounds quite bizarre to you, doesn't it?†   (source)
  • He handed the agent the dollar bill with the bizarre diagram.†   (source)
  • The things Jason could see were just as bizarre.†   (source)
  • The surviving Sumerian myths exist in fragments and have a bizarre quality.†   (source)
  • What had all Aria's bizarre Alison questions been about?†   (source)
  • Then he started hallucinating and exhibiting increasingly bizarre and erratic behavior.†   (source)
  • It hurt a lot, which seemed to rule out the possibility that he was having a very bizarre dream.†   (source)
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