QUEER in a Sentence
Learn QUEER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
198 example sentences for QUEER, such as:
1. The fish had a queer taste.
2. There's nowt so queer as folk.
3. The queer thing was, he didn't.
4. He gave a queer little bow, lifting his hat.
5. His imagination played round that queer idea.
2. There's nowt so queer as folk.
3. The queer thing was, he didn't.
4. He gave a queer little bow, lifting his hat.
5. His imagination played round that queer idea.
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Meanings and Examples of QUEER
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queer
a. homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
n. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
Classic Sentence: (191 in 13 pages)
1 And their queer, crude life seemed as unnatural as that of hedgehogs.
2 Connie really wondered at this queer, melancholy specimen of extraordinary success; it was said he had an income of fifty thousand dollars from America alone.
3 'It's very pleasant up here,' he said, with his queer smile, as if it hurt him to smile, showing his teeth.
4 The queer thing was, he didn't.
5 He wrote to Connie with the same plaintive melancholy note as ever, sometimes witty, and touched with a queer, sexless affection.
6 He gave a queer little bow, lifting his hat.
7 That was her own private affair, and the one point on which, in her own queer, female way, she was serious to the bottom of her soul.
8 Clifford had a queer dread of delivering himself into the hands of a stranger, but this Mrs Bolton had once nursed him through scarlet fever, and he knew her.
9 It was a queer mixture of feelings the woman showed as she talked.
10 The phrase sounded queer, she didn't know why.
11 But she had that queer sort of bossiness, endless assertion of her own will, which is one of the signs of insanity in modern woman.
12 She ought not to listen with this queer rabid curiosity.
13 With a queer obedience, she lay down on the blanket.
14 Then she quivered as she felt his hand groping softly, yet with queer thwarted clumsiness, among her clothing.
15 It puzzled her, his queer, persistent wanting her, when there was nothing between them, when he never really spoke to her, and in spite of herself she resented the dialect.
Example Sentence:
1 I slept in queer places, and ate odd things, and met strange faces.
2 And the sneeze of the baby, the shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change to the confused clamour of the busy farm yard.
3 How queer everything is to-day!
4 The fish had a queer taste.
5 His imagination played round that queer idea.
6 There's nowt so queer as folk.
7 Perhaps the glassy stare had lingered in his eyes, for Scales looked at him queerly.