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How to use weirdly in a sentence

21 example sentences · adverb

Weirdly means in a weird manner. Example: “The teacher suspected he was on drugs because he was behaving weirdly.”

Examples of weirdly by meaning

adverbIn a weird manner.

  • The teacher suspected he was on drugs because he was behaving weirdly.
  • She wore a necklace strung with weirdly-shaped pearls.
  • The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.2007 February 18, Jake Mooney, “A Case of the Shivers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

adverbContrary to expectations.

  • Weirdly, Alice showed up 10 minutes early. She was usually late for everything.
  • The roughness of the wool was weirdly pleasant.

More sentences with weirdly

  • There's nothing wrong with the audio volumewise — I can hear it loud and clear. But the tone color is weirdly distorted.From the entry volumewise
  • Like the one time I got catcalled in girlmode and it was actually weirdly euphoric.2023 September 25, Not-Jesus666, “Archived copy”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2024. From the entry girlmode
  • “Are you drunk?” “No, actually, weirdly enough, we're sober,” Bingley called up.2017, Melissa de la Cruz, Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 90. From the entry Kahlúa
  • Yesterday's Jennermania confirms how weirdly authoritarian, even idolatrous, trans politics has become.2015, Brendan O'Neill, ‘Call me Caitlyn, or else’: the rise of authoritarian transgender politics (in The Spectator, June). From the entry Jennermania
  • Plus”—he laughed—“everything was weirdly shaded, like it was lit by the moon.”2014, Elizabeth Fama, Plus One (Young Adult Fiction), →ISBN, page 231. From the entry Frinight
  • The particles may not be un-Einsteinian, but they remain weirdly fascinating all the same.2012 June 8, “Back to the future”, in The Economist. From the entry un-Einsteinian
  • They didn't take it on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168. From the entry take it on the lam
  • Every lesbian I knew seemed weirdly excited for this album.2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan. From the entry jump-cut
  • They are draped in black and white fabrics, weirdly cut to either conceal or highlight their blobby, inconsistent body structures.2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 137. From the entry protuberance
  • A thick skiff of snow lay over the world, and the big stars looked down on the weirdly wild scene.2016, Glenn Dromgoole, West Texas Stories, ACU Press, →ISBN. From the entry skiff
  • He was full of dorktastic style, and weirdly enough, he’d become one of Chase’s closest friends since his Tale last spring.2014, Shelby Bach, Of Sorcery and Snow (The Ever Afters), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, pages 66–67. From the entry dorktastic
  • What kept his devices from feeling larkish was a sly vocal intimation: even at his most weirdly expressive, Mr.2009 June 19, Nate Chinen, “Territory of Two Norwegian Trumpeters”, in New York Times. From the entry larkish
  • Dylan, with his weirdly worshippy gaze, looking after me—my stomach would flip-flop and send a funny taste up to my mouth.2007, Beth Mayall, Mermaid Park. From the entry worshippy
  • The internet has produced many strange fads throughout the years, from cats getting scared of cucumbers to the weirdly unsettling Lenny Face.2016 May 27, German Lopez, “Dat boi, explained”, in Vox. From the entry Lenny Face
  • The bifurcated look had something weirdly haremlike about it and, however liberating, was light only in relation to what had come before.2009 March 3, Christopher Petkanas, “Early Bloomers”, in New York Times. From the entry haremlike
  • My first contact with non-Muslims had been in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent, where, according to my overtuned antennae, the streets seemed weirdly crammed with blondes in miniskirts.2004, James Fergusson, Kandahar Cockney: A Tale of Two Worlds, London […]: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry overtuned

Meaning of weirdly

  1. adverb In a weird manner.
  2. adverb Contrary to expectations.

Full definition of weirdly

Questions about weirdly in a sentence

How do you use weirdly in a sentence?
Weirdly is used as an adverb. For example: “The teacher suspected he was on drugs because he was behaving weirdly.”
What is a short sentence with weirdly?
“She wore a necklace strung with weirdly-shaped pearls.”
What does weirdly mean?
Weirdly means in a weird manner.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weirdly (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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