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Example sentences for "queer thing"

  • Seems a queer thing that a man who knows how to handle men and keep them in their place shouldn't know how to treat a child.

  • Love's a queer thing," he said, "fatal thing often.

  • Flowers grew and dropped--Nature was a queer thing!

  • It's a queer thing, that, in a strange street.

  • God forgive me, Micheal Dara, we'll all be getting old, but it's a queer thing surely.

  • It's a queer thing to see an old man sitting up there in his bed with no teeth in him, and a rough word in his mouth, and his chin the way it would take the bark from the edge of an oak board you'ld have building a door.

  • It's a pitiful thing to be getting old, but it's a queer thing surely.

  • It was a queer thing, but I was now as light-hearted as could be--I caught myself laughing from a curious feeling of pleasure.

  • Queer thing, a great man like me, but I was always delicate in that way, ever since I was a nipper--strong as a bull in all else.

  • There may be nothing but coincidence in it--but there's no denying it's a queer thing.

  • And that may seem a queer thing for me to say when you know that I am getting the joy in my life, that I do not hesitate to admit I am, from letters written by a man whose name I don't know.

  • I am sure no one has," said John Gilman meditatively, "and it's a queer thing.

  • It's a queer thing to see an old man sitting up there in his bed with no teeth in him, and a rough word in his mouth, and his chin the way it would take the bark from the edge of an oak board you'd have building a door.

  • God forgive me, Michael Dara, we'll all be getting old, but it's a queer thing surely.

  • It was a queer thing to me to sit to-day in that room of the French presbytery talking to the old Cure.

  • A queer thing happened to some German transport men.

  • III And then a queer thing happened to him.

  • But the others began to know a queer thing, nothing less than this, that in their absence the lair was sometimes visited by a person or persons unknown, who made use of their stock of firewood.

  • That seems a queer thing to do," he observed, with a dry little laugh.

  • Gee, it would be a queer thing if after all these years one were to get the bracelets on him!

  • Queer thing," he remarked, "but the law generally does come out on top.

  • Yet God let him have a hand in writing the Bible--queer thing that, isn't it?

  • It's a queer thing, but I've never been in the city on a Sunday before," Masterman remarked.

  • It's a queer thing to think about, that in fifty years' time not one of those folk will be alive," he reflected.

  • Queer thing--I was always sorry for that blow.

  • It would be a queer thing if I wouldn't give you a sup at my own expense now that you are here after all this length of time.

  • Yes, it was a queer thing we should both think of the same thing, wasn’t it?

  • It would be a queer thing indeed I to be satisfied.

  • Well, that's a queer thing, and Bartley Fallon so quiet a man!

  • That is a queer thing to say and a very queer thing.

  • It's a queer thing, but I wouldn't take you for a Russian.

  • Queer thing I never saw ye on the Auchenlochan road, where ye can see three mile before ye.

  • It's a queer thing," said Dickson meditatively, "that you should keep a hotel and yet be set on discouraging people from visiting this neighbourhood.

  • Well, Mr. Loudon, I'm going to tell you a queer thing, which I think you ought to know.

  • Well," said he presently, "and it's a queer thing that at the time of the inquest nobody ever thought of inquiring if there is such a churchyard and such graves.

  • I had no knowledge, you're aware, of what lay behind me on the sands: I just thought it a queer thing that a man of quality's handkerchief should be there.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "queer thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    baby should; contend against; deep distress; distilled water; favourable breeze; figuratively speaking; half aloud; has become; hath found; literary history; man named; military matters; mocking smile; normal space; our life; queer fish; queer little; queer smile; queer sort; queer thing; single ship; small majority; thousand millions; tripartite resolution; truce boat; waiting for