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quirky angļu valodā:

1. strange

Strange.

We found many strange plants in a botanical garden.

He sometimes makes me feel strange when we meet each other face to face.

Even though I felt that there was something strange, I just didn't know what it was.

I needed a lot of courage to try eating that strange food.

Everything happened very quickly and it was all very strange.

A face with too much make up looks strange.

People no longer consider it strange for men to let their hair grow long.

Private detectives were hired to look into the strange case.

If it's an aggressive strange salesman, then call me right away. I'll chase him off.

When I had to learn English in school, at times I would bemoan all the irregularities and strange rules.

Sentences? once more, the shopkeeper was confused by Dima's strange ramblings.

The map on page 11 looks very strange. Turn it upside down. Then it becomes a familiar map to you.

Using only "Tom" and "Mike" in many sentences is very strange.

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2. odd

that's odd!

He's always been an odd child, wearing the same stripy shirt on even days of the week.

The New Yorker attempts to reïnstate the English diaresis in words like "coöperation," "zoölogical," and "reëntry"—an odd thing to reinstate in this day and age, and hardly in cooperation with most zoology.

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that no one would have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound.

I'd like to do without commas, but 6 feels odd if it doesn't have commas.

I came to know the man who is now my husband through e-mail; from an acquaintanceship started in that odd way, before a month had passed, we found ourselves resolving to get married.

Well he looks odd on the surface ... but he's even odder on the inside. "You're really not helping me there."

Why am I the only one who dressed up? Now I feel odd!

Oliver, usually the biggest talker, was oddly silent at yesterday's meeting

It's kind of odd behavior for somebody who's about to kill herself,

What do we mean by an odd fellow? By an odd fellow a strange or peculiar man.

odd socks

the neighbors thought him very odd. If the number in the second column is odd. he's wearing odd socks.

Susan asked if I bite my toenails - what an odd question!

Waiting for Godot was voted the most significant English language play of the 20ts century, which is odd because it was originally written in French.

3. unusual

That's unusual.

Valencia is famous for its unusual architecture.

You don't have to come up with an unusual topic for your speech.

In the case of patient death during the course of medical treatment, even if there is medical error present, it is not automatically legally considered to be an "unusual death."

Innovation has something to do with the faculty to notice unusual phenomena.

That's an unusual hobby she's got, the transfer student. "She's cute so it's fine with me."

Some clarinetists use clarinets tuned to A instead of B flat in passages which would otherwise be written in unusual keys.

In an unusual move, this school's big band uses slide trumpets and valve trombones exclusively.

But in many ways, the bird called Alex is unusual, for it has shown the kind of mental abilities that scientists once thought only humans had.

Engagement gifts should always be unusual and special to honour the occasion.

creepiest, most unusual person I've ever met.

If something is unusual, it does not happen very often or you do not see it or hear it very often(2) If you describe someone as unusual, you think that they are interesting and different from other people

1. Everything here is so unusual. / 2. It is not so unusual.

The unusual architecture of Astana makes it look like a space-age city.

You cant find some really unusual things in this shop.