Explore Funnily through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like strangely or oddly. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Funnily meaning
- In a funny or amusing manner.
- In a strange or unexpected manner, especially of a coincidence.
Using Funnily
- The main meaning on this page is: In a funny or amusing manner. | In a strange or unexpected manner, especially of a coincidence.
- Useful related words include: queerly, strangely, oddly.
- In the example corpus, funnily often appears in combinations such as: funnily enough, and funnily.
Context around Funnily
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 3 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Funnily
- In this selection, "funnily" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, anyway and enough stand out and add context to how "funnily" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include funnily enough the and added anyway funnily it s. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "funnily" sits close to words such as abdulrazaq, adan and adolphus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with funnily
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And funnily enough, that’s exactly what happened. (8 words)
Funnily enough I had a conversation at work. (8 words)
And he said: 'Funnily enough, Senator Biden was driving. (9 words)
Funnily enough, Kasdan's 1994 feature (which also made the ill-advised move of arriving barely six months after George P. Cosmatos' gun-slinging, Wyatt Earp-centric classic "Tombstone" hit theaters) isn't even Costner's longest sojourn into the Old West. (42 words)
Chatting to fans in a live stream, Gemma admitted: ‘Well, to be honest with you, funnily enough, I’ve lost quite a bit of weight in lockdown, because I’ve not been able to eat in restaurants and enjoy myself much. (41 words)
Tony discussed the horrific incident yesterday, telling his 402k followers: "I can't really go into details but I was attacked last night at a gig, in the DJ box by another DJ funnily enough. (35 words)
Funnily enough, Jackman's return for Deadpool and Wolverine meant he technically held the record – right up until Snipes appeared on-screen! (22 words)
Funnily enough, that particular pig of the star ended up being 300 pounds in no time! (16 words)
Funnily enough, a lot of chaotic things happen in the Eurovision film – but nothing quite so dramatic as this, you could write it, they just wouldn’t believe it! (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
And funnily enough, that’s exactly what happened.
And funnily enough, when you go into the words of Tolkien, you find that his trees are gold all the time.
Funnily enough, Lewis Carroll was suspected of indulging in drugs while he wrote Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.
Funnily enough, Luffy's crewmates made more use of that mirror network than Brulee herself did.
Funnily enough, Rocksteady put out a developer video for earlier this week.
Funnily enough, siding with Gizmo in the retail version results in Junktown prospering.
Funnily enough, the Spider-Man motif does more than sharpen the continuity within franchise.
Liz Truss has finally spoken out about the infamous lettuce which survived her – and funnily enough, she is not happy.
Speaking to The Mirror, she said: “Johnny and I have had a bit of a rocky relationship over the years for various reasons and, funnily enough, we’ve messaged a lot in lockdown.
Everyone looked surprised before Ruth added: 'Anyway funnily it's now time for a break'.
Funnily enough, Jackman's return for Deadpool and Wolverine meant he technically held the record – right up until Snipes appeared on-screen!
Funnily enough, Kasdan's 1994 feature (which also made the ill-advised move of arriving barely six months after George P. Cosmatos' gun-slinging, Wyatt Earp-centric classic "Tombstone" hit theaters) isn't even Costner's longest sojourn into the Old West.
Funnily enough, that particular pig of the star ended up being 300 pounds in no time!
Funnily enough, the abuse reduced in direct correlation to the goals he scored.
Tony discussed the horrific incident yesterday, telling his 402k followers: "I can't really go into details but I was attacked last night at a gig, in the DJ box by another DJ funnily enough.
And he said: 'Funnily enough, Senator Biden was driving.
Chatting to fans in a live stream, Gemma admitted: ‘Well, to be honest with you, funnily enough, I’ve lost quite a bit of weight in lockdown, because I’ve not been able to eat in restaurants and enjoy myself much.
Funnily enough, a lot of chaotic things happen in the Eurovision film – but nothing quite so dramatic as this, you could write it, they just wouldn’t believe it!
Funnily enough, Haru has to foot the bill for the replacement dog that Daisuke obtained for the child looking for his pet.
Funnily enough I had a conversation at work.
Common combinations with funnily
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: