Use queer in a sentence
Sentences starting with queer
- Queer way of talk he has, that man, as queer as--" "I understand, Michael. [11]
- Queer old goat, isn't he? [11]
- Queer how he got his power began twenty-four years ago when I wahn't but twenty. [9]
Sentences ending with queer
- Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. [6]
- We thought he was queer. [9]
- And his voice, too, sounded queer. [9]
- Austen doesn't seem to care about money--he's queer. [9]
- Then he said, still as if reflecting: "Isn't it queer? [4]
- Now wasn't that queer? [9]
- Naturally the Biblical limit of threescore and ten suggests itself; but human nature is very queer. [4]
- They have an idea on Capri that England is such another island, only not so pleasant; that all Englishmen are rich and constantly travel to escape the dreariness at home; and that, if they are not absolutely mad, they are all a little queer. [4]
- Do you think I am queer? [4]
- Folks are queer. [4]
Short sentences using queer
- It was a queer question. [9]
- He's got a queer notion. [8]
- It's a mighty queer bill. [4]
- How queer the place seemed! [9]
- Guides have queer notions occasionally. [6]
- A queer whim indeed. [9]
- What a queer idea! [2]
- Had a queer history. [11]
- It's a queer hallucination. [11]
- Then I've queer fancies. [13]
Sentences containing queer two or more times
- A queer being--very queer being; no respect for anything or anybody. [5]
- What a queer, melancholy house, what a queer, melancholy street! [5]
More example sentences with the word queer in them
- I will take you to all the queer places I love. [9]
- Miss Clara Browne wrote home to her mother in the same terms as Miss Florence Smythe,--that the school was getting dreadful common, and they were letting in very queer folks. [6]
- It was no wonder that the Hollisters were Democrats, for they had a queer streak in them; owing, no doubt, to the fact that old Mr. Jules Hollister's mother had been a Frenchwoman. [9]
- And that queer woman, the Deacon's mother,--there 's where she gets that hystericky look. [6]
- They wore dresses with wide skirts and flounces, and queer low collars and bonnets. [9]
- His easy familiarity with great men was beautiful to see, and when Philip learned what a tremendous underground influence this little ignoramus had, he no longer wondered at the queer appointments and the queerer legislation. [5]
- From queer old-fashioned windows along the curve projected boxes of bright flowers, and over the edge of one of these boxes hung the head and shoulders of a cat--asleep. [5]
- I shall never win over this soldier's son to our peaceful handicraft, but he shall not remain on the mountain among these queer sluggards, for there he is being ruined, and yet he is not of a common sort. [10]
- Nor was it wholly anger, Hodder, but a queer tangle of feelings I can't describe. [9]
- Gentlemen and ladies who were sick, or were taking a siesta, or had dissipated till a late hour and were making up lost sleep, thronged into the public streets in all sorts of queer apparel, and some without any at all. [5]
- Then after a while she whispered, 'Thank you, my dear,' but in such a queer tone. [11]
- To the right, where a river empties in, were scattered groups of queer, rakish craft, each with four slanting pipes and a tiny flag floating from her halyards; a flag--as the binoculars revealed--of crimson bars and stars on a field of blue. [9]
- The queer vibrations were in his voice that she had heard before. [9]
- Said he: "Sometimes we'd have a batch of college students Queer lot. [5]
- He had a way of eyeing me at times, his glasses in his hand, a queer smile on his lips, as much as to imply that there was one at least among the lost who was made for better things. [9]
- Once, when I was in Burgos, I saw a queer, longish shadow coming round a street corner, and two minutes after, first a nose and then old Enrique appeared. [10]
- And when he was gone I felt queer, because there were all his etchings spread out on the floor. [5]
- And when he was awake, his efforts to communicate the dawning ideas of the queer world into which he had come were a never-failing delight. [4]
- Oh, yes, there was another fellow who spoke I forgot to mention--that queer Dick who was in your class, Krebs, got the school board evidence, looked as if he'd come in by freight. [9]
- I thought that was a sort of a queer thing for Flint's daughter to do, but Austen didn't seem to look at it that way. [9]
- He was a very queer person to be attached to the Embassy,--not a courtier, but a serious, literal person like you, Mr. Ritchie, and he resembled you very much. [9]
- A man got up and came to see what this queer big fellow was laughing at all by himself. [2]
- I have never told you about him," he added with some hesitation; "he's a trifle queer, but a good fellow at the bottom. [9]
- It seems odd to write that he is not responsible, since he never has been,--his condition is so queer that I am at a loss to describe it. [9]
- Just to talk to him gives one such a queer feeling of--of dissatisfaction with one's self, and seeing him once more seems to have half revived in me a whole series of dead memories. [9]
- It was pleasant to have her do all the packing, while I read or sauntered in the queer streets about the inns. [9]
- Maybe I was tired--anyhow, it put me on the queer, and everything in the joint began to tango 'round me--and Neva came home with me. [9]
- And even if things had been different, I hadn't come to love him, in that way--it's queer, because he's such a wonderful person. [9]
- That's a queer thing to stain your beautiful hands. [13]
- Such an absurd thing to do at night, said the aunt, and then she kissed Margaret, and laughed a little, and declared that things had come to a queer pass when people made love by telegraph. [4]
- But the queer thing is that with this electricity you take it away and just as much remains. [11]
- It's a queer thing about inspiration, you only find it when you're not looking for it. [9]
- We learn from them to recognize all sorts of queer tendencies in minds supposed to be sane, so that we have nothing but compassion for a large class of persons condemned as sinners by theologians, but considered by us as invalids. [6]
- In his actions, the queer little man obeyed the dictates of his heart; in his speech, his head ruled his tongue, and this seemed to him the only sensible course. [10]
- The sight of the gold piece, indeed, had suddenly revived in Janet the queer feeling of faintness, almost of nausea she had experienced after parting with Lottie Myers. [9]
- If one of the ablest lawyers in the city hadn't been hired by the respectable crowd and a lot of other queer work done, the treasurer and purchasing agent would be doing time. [9]
- Isn't it queer that the further we go into science the deeper we go into mystery? [4]
- It is true that my witnesses were quite willing to depose that his actions were queer and out of the common, but these witnesses were for the most part venerable farmers and backwoodsmen: expert testimony was deplorably lacking. [9]
- The story is that he has a queer antipathy to something or to somebody, nobody knows what or whom. [6]
- The queer earthquake--episodes that formed the staple of San Francisco gossip for the next week would fill a much larger book than this, and so I will diverge from the subject. [5]
- Never mind; I'll tell you the verses, to show you what a queer thing memory is. [11]
- And what queer talk they used! [5]
- And if you stood in a dark room and your neighbors in the next had lights, the shadows on your canvas told queer secrets sometimes! [5]
- If the little spotted fawn can think, it must seem to her a queer world in which the advent of innocence is hailed by the baying of fierce hounds and the "ping" of the rifle. [4]
- Their aspects, their speech and manners had the queer effect of penetrating her consciousness without arousing the emotional judgments of approval or disapproval which normally should have followed. [9]
- Your eyes go so queer sometimes, that a chap doesn't know what to think. [11]
- When I was so high, my mother told me a great many things, such queer things! [10]
- I know what she has been busy with lately, and the queer idea she has got into her head. [6]
- English, Irish, and Scotch from the British Isles and the ends of the earth mingle there with Indians, Egyptians, and the chattering Mongolians in queer fur caps who work in the bakeries. [9]
- Then followed that queerest of all the queer things in this world --a conversation with only one end of it. [5]
- People thought it queer, since a draft on New York could produce greenbacks quite conveniently. [5]
- He had a queer, short face, ruddy as the harvest moon, and he smiled good-humouredly when I opened my eyes. [9]
- His voice was queer, scarcely recognizable. [9]
- He may be queer, one may not agree with his views, but after the experience I had with him I've never been able to look at him in the way George does, for instance, or even as father does. [9]
- He must be queer, like his father, your great uncle, Henry Pindar. [9]
- You may be queer, but you've got a kind eye. [11]
- But dreams are queer things, in which no events surprise us. [9]
- I've seen some queer things in my time, too. [13]
- Life was a queer thing, and he had not yet got his bearings in it. [11]
- I hear decidedly queer tales of you; canoeing every day that business does not prevent, and whole evenings spent at the dark end of a veranda. [9]
- I had a queer sensation as he turned the page, and scanned the editorial; and I could not help wondering what he and the thousands like him thought of me; what he would say if I introduced myself and asked his opinion. [9]
- It was a queer question, and Jethro's answer was quite as lacking in convention. [9]
- We made a queer procession, Nick and I striding ahead to show the path, followed by the now servile chief, and after him the captain and his twenty men in single file. [9]
- There must be queer papers in this box, or Neithotep would not have honored us with his commands to fetch them. [10]
- He was a queer old man. [6]
- English people have queer notions about iced-water and ice-cream. [6]
- Society is a queer medley in this notable missionary, whaling and governmental centre. [5]
- I had a queer feeling, in all the magnificence, that the sheriff might be in there in ten days. [4]
- There's been some queer deals lately an' this seemed to me the queerest. [13]
- By Sirius a queer business altogether! [10]
- She thought it queer because she was still fond of Edward Bumpus, after all he had "brought on her. [9]
- He had a queer adventure with pirates. [4]
- Also of their quaint notions about the white man's queer civilization, and their equally quaint comments upon it. [5]
- She adores to potter around those queer places abroad where you see strange English and Germans and Americans with red books in their hands. [9]
- These are public places; for the city government has a queer notion that trees are not hideous, and that a part of the use of living is the enjoyment of the beautiful. [4]
- As for John Paul, who seemed my friend, he would say nothing, only to advise me privately that the man was queer company, shaking his head when I defended him. [9]
- We imagine that our queer official costumery was deliberately devised to symbolise our Republican Simplicity--a quality which we have never possessed, and are too old to acquire now, if we had any use for it or any leaning toward it. [5]
- They contain two or three hundred queer old pictures, by old Swiss masters--old boss sign-painters, who flourished before the decadence of art. [5]
- But the general opinion concerning the queer husband of "the most distinguished woman in Petersburg" was so well established that no one took his freaks seriously. [2]
- Mela, she kind of thought it would look queer to have two funerals from the same house, hand-runnin', as you might call it, and one of 'em no relation, either; but when she saw how fawther was bent on it, she give in. [8]
- The shifting application of sympathy is a very queer thing in this world. [4]
- She's got sort of queer, lately--she thinks they're down on her. [9]
- A queer sort of giant--smaller than the mathematical point of which we were speaking, and yet vast beyond all measurement. [10]
- On the eve of destruction the earth must surely look differently from this; and it struck her as highly improbable that the gods should have revealed their purpose to such a queer old driveller as this priest, and have hidden it from other men. [10]
- But towards four o'clock of that day a great bank of yellow cloud rolled up, darkening the earth save for a queer saffron light that stained everything, and made our very faces yellow. [9]
- Womenkind get queer notions, which I cal'late we've got to respect and put up with all our lives--eh? [9]
- I don't know nothin' about this newfangled law, but 'tis a queer thing to my thinkin' if them that fit fer a place ain't got the fust right to it. [9]
- If there was not an instinct for all three of them in that meeting, an unreasoning tendency toward a closer intimacy, then Jane Withersteen believed she had been subject to a queer fancy. [13]
- There are strange nooks and corners and passages in the old building, and one place, a queer little "cubby-hole," has the appearance of having been a Roman Catholic chapel. [6]
- A queer chuckling noise came from his throat. [11]
- Truly," says he, musing, "the Lord often makes queer choice in his instruments for good. [9]
- It would be much more fun to run away from them to the queer places of the earth--with the right man. [9]
- Organs and church-music mixed up with a bombardment is a powerful queer combination--along at first. [5]
- It had a mediaeval look, queer dormers in a steep roof of red tiles, leaded windows buried deep in walls of rough stone. [9]
- Yet Nicolas laughed loudly, as he perceived the queer objects in the top of the elm, and pointing upward, said: "What kind of fruits are hanging there? [10]
- We're a queer lot, down there, Isabel--perfect menagerie. [8]
- And do you know, Philip, that people are more interesting over there, more individual, have more queer sorts of character. [4]
- We must show it to one of the prisoners of war, after you have got her safe; perhaps they could make out the queer inscription. [10]
- The song--why did it make Mr. Kerry take on such a queer look all at once when he heard it? [11]
- From the first it certainly seemed to me impossible that that handsome woman, for whom quite different people had troubled themselves should err for this queer beggar--" "What cruel injustice has fallen on the poor man! [10]
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