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• In a quirk of German politics, the governing coalitions are often given names.2025 February 22, Sebastian Shukla, Nadine Schmidt and Claudia Otto, “Germany is holding a national election. Here’s what’s at stake”, in…. From the entry coalition
• She has learned about me, and how I respond to its quirks—like a river flowing with hiccups.2013, Bruce R. Swinburne, Stem: Cells That Divide, page 271. From the entry herky-jerky
• Pronouncing a Spanish loan word in an Italian way is one of the many quirks of English.2009 July 23, Jeremy Butterfield, Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare, page 57. From the entry choritso
• Gorgosauruses are not particularly rare, but this one had an interesting quirk.2009, Charles Foster, “Who’s Right? Evidence and the Lack of It”, in The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin, London: Hodder &…. From the entry gorgosaurus
• Little quirk there in my particular branch of judgedom, he said.2004, Rob Laughner, Our Nun, page 125. From the entry judgedom
• There are several obligatory postmodernist quirks, such as the wildly overscaled sculptural excrescences at the roof line.1988 June 10, Ed Zotti, “One for the Books”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry overscaled
• She adds that the two main quirks she noticed among her OnlyFans followers were "foot fetish stuff" and "gooning".2022 November 20, Michael Moran, “OnlyFans star Angela White tells all about money, 'gooners' and foot fetishists”, in The Daily Star…. From the entry gooning
• So maybe declinism is just a quirk of human psychology.2015 January 16, Pete Etchells, “Declinism: is the world actually getting worse?”, in The Guardian. From the entry declinism
• The difference is that changes embedded in emerging reaccomplishments adapt to local quirks more quickly and often more fully.2012, Karl E. Weick, Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2. From the entry reaccomplishment
• Some were consoled by Weber's bombshell: a simple neurological quirk that revealed how everyone suffered from a form of prosopagnosia.2007, Richard Powers, The Echo Maker: A Novel, →ISBN, page 150. From the entry face-blind
• The question that has bandied around is whether or not shaving his netherlands was a quirk of Oswald's.2004 August 17, Barb Junkkarinen, “Oswald's privates”, in alt.assassination.jfk (Usenet). From the entry netherlands
• Her demands and quirks were ever more extravagant and dislocated.1989, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, Arcade Publishing, published 1998, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry off one's tree
• I've seen some fast life-programs, but often they took advantage of particular quirks of the rules of Life.1988 January 26, David Hiebeler, “Fast way to update grids”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry life
• As I said earlier, I developed a pesterer deterrent of talking to myself, but even that isn't a recent quirk.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 8. From the entry pesterer
• Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character.1957 October 14, “The Last Days of Freud”, in Time. From the entry warts and all
• August was aware of Robert's strange quirk of flophousing away from home and that he often spent weekends at the Diana.1941, James F. Waters, The Court of Missing Heirs, page 53. From the entry flophouse
• There's no space there to share our dreams, fears, goals, quirks, and hopes or delve into the backstories about why we have them.2023 August 19, Amanda Chatel, “Singles Are Crafting 'Date-Me-Docs' To Meet Potential Suitors - Here's What That Means”, in Glam.com…. From the entry date-me doc
• And one of her many quirks.2016, A. Wilding Wells, “Snowvale”, in Sunshine Bleeds a Black Edge (The Wild Things; 3), Hyp Notic Press, →ISBN. From the entry riches
• Friday night in the Fargo Theatre, bringing her bad singing, messy lipstick and other quirks to the stage for all her “Mirfandas.”2014 August 28, Jack Dura, “Editor’s Choice: Something for Everyone this Labor Day Weekend”, in The Spectrum, volume 118, number 1…. From the entry Mirfanda
• Through some ill-understood quirk of balance, his drunken weavings did nothing to upset the tray — it seemed to remain calmly horizontal.1980, David Madsen, Black Plume. From the entry weaving
• When he released her, Marian reached up and smoothed the caretlike quirk in his eyebrow and then put her hand back in his.1968, Maggie Rennert, A moment in Camelot. From the entry caretlike
• From headcanoning him, kicking his legs, and blushing at a compliment to wearing cat ears, Ghost’s menacing persona is being accepted as a cute little quirk to the girlies.2022 November 30, Rachel Choi, “The babygirlification of Ghost in COD is threatening the incels”, in The Berkeley Beacon. From the entry headcanon
• I think it still holds up relatively well, modulo Joss Whedon's quirks, but a fuller version would probably have to include some more of the aftermath.2019 March 23, AliasiSudonomo, “Doctor Horrible - 10 Years Later”, in rpg.net. From the entry modulo
• Disgustology is now expanding in numerous directions, offering still more insights into human nature—including a strange quirk that I've noticed in myself and that you may identify with too.2016, Kathleen McAuliffe, This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society. From the entry disgustology
• This is perhaps an implementation quirk of Postgres's, but it does have some advantages and we're not interested in giving them up just because it confuses MySQLers ;-).2009 April 11, Tom Lane, “[GENERAL] Connect without specifying a database?”, in pgsql.general (Usenet). From the entry MySQLer
• I wonder if there is another in the world that could produce, among perfectly normal people, this strangest quirk in the agenda of liquordom, the closet drinker.1940, Walton Hall Smith with Ferdinand Christian Helwig, Liquor, the servant of man. From the entry closet

Meaning of quirk

1. noun An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.
2. noun An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a molding and a soffit.
3. noun A quibble, evasion, or subterfuge.

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Questions about quirk in a sentence

How do you use quirk in a sentence?

Quirk is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The car steers cleanly, but the gearshift has a few quirks.”

What is a short sentence with quirk?

“He quirked an eyebrow.”

What does quirk mean?

Quirk means an idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.