For it is generally said that Humility prescribes a low opinion of our own merits: but if our merits are comparatively high, it seems strange to direct us to have a low opinion of them.
It seems strange to many people that I should be impressed by the wonders and beauties of Niagara.
It seems strange that my first reading of Shakespeare should have left me so many unpleasant memories.
Gift' seems strange in view of the stress placed on Pompeius' ownership of Ovid.
It seems strange that, whilst the sites of so many Roman towns are the sites of English towns to-day, Uriconium so favoured in position should be left desolate--given over to the winds of heaven and the birds of the air.
Its name constantly occurs in Irish annals and history; and its history was for centuries as gloomy as itself, for the Danes plundered it and burned it so often that it seems strange that it was not abandoned many centuries sooner.
From the many advantages that this beautiful and extraordinary hill possesses, it seems strange that it was not chosen by the ancient Irish for a place of central government.
If of sufficient age and account to be cited before the Archdeacon for discipline, it seems strange that he should not have signed the "Compact.
It seems strange, to our modern ideas, even to think that piracy was once a reputable calling.
It seems strange that it was the men even more than the women who offended in these respects.
It seems strange to us of to-day to find as the leading spirits among these Brothers the names of Moltke and Manteuffel, doubtless forbears of the famous modern German generals.
But it seems strange, that she should write elaborate letters to a person inhabiting the same town, and with whom she was doubtless in the habit of having frequent personal intercourse.
Looking backwards, it seems strange that we should have been so excited after a short raid like that; but it had been a new thing achieved--an adventure successfully carried through.
It seems strange to think that the bare lifeless buildings of that watering town are full of an unseen life, that up in those roofs Germans are watching us only a few hundred yards away, as we are watching them.
He applied to the Government; and it seems strange that he should have applied in vain.
Again, it seems strange that Mr. Montagu should not perceive that, while attempting to vindicate Bacon's reputation, he is really casting on it the foulest of all aspersions.
If such were Burleigh's feelings, it seems strange that he should have suffered his son to venture on those quicksands from which he so carefully preserved his nephew.
Now Solomon and Mrs. Otus were both gray, except, of course, what white feathers and black streaks were mixed up in their mottlings and dapples; so it seems strange enough to see two of their children distinctly reddish.
Considering all this, it seems strange, does it not, that when the spring of 1920 had gone no further than to melt the ice in the northern lakes, Gavia and her mate left the sea and took strong flight inland.
Considering how many large and beautiful castles were owned by Francis, it seems strange that he should have chosen such a dismal place as Plessis for a child to be brought up in.
Still, in spite of his fame, his voyages were few, and it seems strange that he should have been seized with mortal illness at the bishop's house in Kirk wall.
It seems strange that, considering how greatly Marie Louise feared and disliked her Camarera Mayor, she should have listened to her abuse of the king's mother, and allowed it to influence her conduct.
It seems strange that he should have been allowed to remain at home for nearly two years, but in France events were rapidly marching towards the Revolution, and rules were in many cases relaxed.
It seems strange that, when Jehovah had fought so many successful battles, he would allow himself to be captured.
It seems strange, under such circumstances, that he should marry a wife when there were no women to make wives of.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seems strange" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
