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Example sentences for "outlandish"

Lexicographically close words:
outjump; outjutting; outland; outlander; outlanders; outlands; outlast; outlasted; outlasts; outlaw
  1. On the crests of their helmets they have set outlandish figures--monsters, heads of birds, or of women.

  2. Into my trench they piled--just boys-- Making a most outlandish noise.

  3. The speaker was a tall, authoritative-looking man of rather outlandish aspect, remarkable among other things for a full black beard, worn in a style more in vogue in early Assyria than in a London suburb of the present day.

  4. No native would then have dreamed of defying these colossal ships, worked by mysterious powers, and laden with outlandish instruments of death.

  5. The application of these outlandish penalties, in fact, transfers the sympathy to the offender.

  6. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in spite of its outlandish subject, the sketch may find readers.

  7. They were uncomfortable, too, like an outlandish style of dress.

  8. Now with an outlandish grace, To the sparkling fire I face In the blue room at Skerryvore; Where I wait until the door Open, and the Prince of Men, Henry James, shall come again.

  9. By the sides of the rainy sea, Where never a stranger came, On the awful lips of the dead, He heard the outlandish name.

  10. At last, across the weary faem, Frae far, outlandish pairts I came.

  11. We are in a fine way when the public peace is to be sacrificed to the whim of some outlandish wretches.

  12. There's his outlandish lingo--Delaware or Shawnee, I have no doubt!

  13. Yes; I suppose that, in your outlandish lingo, means mother.

  14. Verty assents readily to this, and speaking to his horse in some outlandish tongue, leaves him standing there, and accompanies Redbud toward the house.

  15. As soon as they come amongst other soldiers, they must have Spanish or other outlandish clothes.

  16. The Germans would like to mingle with foreign nations, and take pleasure in outlandish dress and manners, 'but one should not place the vermin in the fur, it comes there without.

  17. The outlandish and the beautiful in Nature and in art take chief hold of our interest.

  18. The materials were abundant in Paris for these and any other outlandish dainties that might be called for.

  19. But Keekie Joe did not plunge his outlandish person into war.

  20. He had cherished no thought of reforming the wicked and uplifting the lowly in his effort to enlist this outlandish denizen of the slums.

  21. The outlandish noise seemed to act as a balm to his disappointment and to keep him company.

  22. I don't think Mother liked it very well--what Aunt Hattie said about my outlandish ways.

  23. I heard Aunt Hattie tell Mother one day that it was going to take about the whole six months to break Mary Marie of those outlandish country ways of hers.

  24. The outlandish old gray sweater with its rolling collar bulging up around his small, jerking throat, did not seem comical now.

  25. In honour of the Black Douglas (I suppose) his usual two guardsmen were now increased to four; and the squad made an outlandish figure as they straggled after him, in straw hats, kilts and jackets.

  26. And so Monsieur the Captain (in René's inveterate outlandish phraseology) found his liberty of action complete.

  27. The voice, clear and sweet, with just a tinge of outlandish intonation, struck Adrian to the heart.

  28. The year eighteen hundred and fifteen which delivered England at last from the strain of outlandish conflict saw a revival of official activity concerning matters of more homely interest.

  29. Even strange outlandish Gaelic names, heard for that time only, he remembered and would remind me of, years after.

  30. I thought I should never see you again in this world, when I heard you was gone to that outlandish country.

  31. Paris, and was made after the fashion of some in the Louvre there, except those large glasses, and they came from some outlandish place, and that rich tapestry.

  32. And he feasted them with all manner of outlandish food, food that grew not in the fields of Mansoul, nor in all the whole Kingdom of Universe.

  33. Looking closer, with a startled surprise, he made out the shaven skull and outlandish garb of a Chinaman.

  34. The gutterals of the outlandish tongue were all that was unlike.

  35. In that day there were negro uprisings, slave runaways to be stopped, and all sorts of outlandish things that are now out of date.

  36. Feed the animals; drive stakes and pull them up; help about the big tent-kitchen; dress up like Turks or some other outlandish creature and march in the street processions, and Heaven only knows what else.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outlandish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absurd; alien; animal; apart; back; barbarian; barbaric; barbarous; baroque; beguiling; bestial; bewildering; bizarre; boorish; brutal; clumsy; coarse; crude; curious; detached; disconnected; discrete; disjunct; doggerel; eccentric; enigmatic; erratic; exceptional; exotic; extramundane; extramural; extraneous; extraordinary; extraterrestrial; extravagant; extrinsic; fabulous; fanciful; fantastic; fantastical; fascinating; florid; foreign; frontier; funny; graceless; gross; grotesque; harsh; impolite; impossible; improper; impure; incommensurable; incomparable; incomprehensible; inconceivable; incorrect; incredible; indecorous; independent; inelegant; infelicitous; insular; intrusive; isolated; kinky; low; maggoty; marvelous; miraculous; notional; odd; off; ordinary; other; out; outlandish; outre; outside; peculiar; phenomenal; preposterous; primitive; prodigious; prohibitive; puzzling; quaint; queer; rare; remarkable; remote; removed; rich; ridiculous; rococo; rude; rum; savage; segregate; sensational; separate; separated; singular; strange; striking; stupendous; tasteless; ulterior; unaffiliated; unallied; unassociated; uncivil; uncivilized; uncombed; unconnected; uncouth; uncultivated; uncultured; undignified; unearthly; ungraceful; unimaginable; unique; unkempt; unlicked; unnatural; unpolished; unprecedented; unrefined; unrelated; unseemly; unsettled; untamed; unusual; vulgar; weird; whimsical; wild; wonderful; wondrous