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How to use weird in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Weird means having an unusually strange character or behaviour. Example: “There are lots of weird people in this place.”

Examples of weird by meaning

adjectiveHaving an unusually strange character or behaviour.

  • There are lots of weird people in this place.

adjectiveDeviating from the normal; bizarre.

  • It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.
  • It was weird for him to watch boys play with Barbie dolls.
  • The best recent VC discs start from the relentlessness of gabber and digital hardcore, and yank it in a weirder direction.1999, SPIN, volume 15, number 3, page 145

adjectiveRelating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").

  • a weird story
  • They are pure fantasy of the "weird" sort and include some of Bradbury's most striking pieces: "The Scythe" (1943), "The Lake" (1944), "The Jar" (1944), "Skeleton" (1945), and "The Small Assassin" (1946)1978, Jeffrey Helterman, Richard Layman, editors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 2: American Novelists Since World War II...

adjectiveRelated to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft or unearthliness; uncanny...

  • And it would seem that it had been granted; for when he came to the Skerburnfoot, there in the corner sat the weird wife Alison, dead as a stone.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

adjectiveHaving super- or preternatural power.

  • Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day.1912, Victor Whitechurch, Thrilling Stories of the Railway

nounFate; destiny; luck.

  • Step by reluctant step, he had come to know his weird.1965, Poul Anderson, The Corridors of Time, page 226

nounWeirdness.

  • They allow you to be your weird and love you for it.2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 33

adverbIn a strange manner.

  • I waltzed into that club just as straight as a goose and I kept tripping over things and people were looking at me weird.1972, Edwin Shrake, Strange Peaches: A Novel
  • Man, you're talking weird!1974, Vernard Eller, The Most Revealing Book of the Bible: Making Sense Out of Revelation

More sentences with weird

  • I like hanging out with my parents, but my friends think it's weird.From the entry parents
  • I think they only have a weird run because their leg hurts.From the entry run
  • Those nerf nets may look weird, but they've saved me a lot of pain.From the entry nerf net
  • And my eyes are weird green grey. More greeny blue in daylight.From the entry greeny
  • Weird Al's song "Lasagna" is a takeoff on the popular song "La Bamba".From the entry takeoff
  • Touch that weird rock over there, I dare you! —No way!From the entry no way
  • For the record, I think these policies are weird and unnecessary.From the entry for the record
  • His house is a treasure trove of weird socks.From the entry treasure trove
  • I had a weird experience, it was quite the trip.From the entry trip
  • When I see that weird house, I get the heebie-jeebies.From the entry heebie-jeebies
  • A guy came to my door selling some weird coupon subscription. I told him to go fly a kite.From the entry go fly a kite
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:weird flex, but OK.From the entry weird flex, but ok
  • It's Ashot lore that I used to have a priv where I posted pictures of weird animals I found on the street.From the entry lore
  • Every year, we spend a week in a weird boat-shaped house next to Pensarn station in Gwynedd.2026 August 5, Christian Wolmar, “An example of BritRail”, in RAIL, number 1067, page 20. From the entry Pensarn
  • That I should find it weird to see a 41-year-old influencer bleating about her “bleph”.2025 October 11, Jo Ellison, “The forever 35 face of fashion”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd.…. From the entry odd one out
  • I hope it isn’t going to be squirrelly or weird about quotes.2023 September 5, Elif Batuman, “Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry squirrelly
  • Such an invasion might be read as a weirding of dominant culture.2023, Richard Perks, John McGrath, editors, 21st Century Guitar: Evolutions and Augmentations, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 192. From the entry weirding
  • I think if he already feels weird, step-incest is going to make him feel so much weirder.2023 December 7, Jessica Stoya, Rich Juzwiak, quoting Jessica Stoya, “When It Comes to Sex, I’m Afraid I’ve Become the Creepy Old Man. I…. From the entry step-incest
  • People who are very rich or very clever, or both, sometimes believe weird things.2023 May 10, Anjana Ahuja, “We need to examine the beliefs of today’s tech luminaries”, in Financial Times. From the entry TESCREAL
  • Until then, and even after, there is nothing wrong or weird about having unreciprocated crushes.2022 March 26, Elissa Strauss, “Why your kid’s crush should be taken seriously”, in CNN. From the entry unreciprocated
  • Reframe that argument for dance music specifically, and things get weird.2022 December 1, Chal Ravens, “We like to party: how pop became the sound of the underground”, in DJ Mag. From the entry rockist
  • I got find it a bit weird lah, to be honest with you—it’s just a small cup!2021, Daryl Qilin Yam, Lovelier, Lonelier, Epigram Books, →ISBN. From the entry got
  • Which is weird, because he usually adds “Fight me” at the end of that declaration.2021 July 13, Sara Fujimura, Faking Reality, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC. From the entry crime against humanity
  • This apparently causes no problems, because beaked whales—keeping it weird—neither bite nor chew their food.2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic. From the entry teuthivorous
  • My sister really did have no weaknesses except a weird, crippling fear of bananas.2021, Beth Garrod, Sister Switch, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry bananaphobia
  • After a weird couple of years, Phoebe Bridgers is ready to have a normal one.2021 September 21, David Brusie, “Phoebe Bridgers stayed home and became a star. Now she's finally on tour”, in The Boston Globe, Boston…. From the entry have a normal one
  • Woke comedians turned political hacks have a weird power over young minds ignoring facts.2021, Karen Kellock, Contagious Madness, page 52. From the entry antiwhiteism
  • Sorry, I generally avoid such discussions with ABDL'ers and similar "weird stuff".2021 June 19, @WilliamBradyCoS, Twitter. From the entry ABDLer

Meaning of weird

  1. adjective Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
  2. adjective Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
  3. adjective Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").

Full definition of weird

Questions about weird in a sentence

How do you use weird in a sentence?
Weird is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “There are lots of weird people in this place.”
What is a short sentence with weird?
“a weird story”
What does weird mean?
Weird means having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: weird (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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