Weird is an English word with synonyms like strange or unusual. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Weird in a sentence
Related words
Weird meaning
- Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
- Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
- Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
Using Weird
- The main meaning on this page is: Having an unusually strange character or behaviour. | Deviating from the normal; bizarre. | Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
- Useful related words include: eldritch, uncanny, unearthly, supernatural.
- In the example corpus, weird often appears in combinations such as: weird and, the weird, weird to.
Example sentences (20)
A good weird mostly, after a summer at home that I most definitely plan on never doing again (sorry mom), but more than a good or bad weird it’s mostly just a weird weird.
And there’s this weird argument, weird discourse where people who like the neural network stuff mostly don’t want to use symbols.
Director James Gunn also put his parents in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and named them "weird old man" and "weird old man's mistress" in the credits.
I’m a zillennial, and it is weird to me because they are more progressive with their politics but a lot of them have these weird conservative takes on sex and partying.
It’s as weird as weird gets: unbridled music, motion, and sound, using “instruments” like pots and pans, tin foil, and child’s toys.
When asked about a “weirdest” thing that a fan has ever done, Vicky shared with Pinkvilla, “I’ll tell you honestly that nothing weird has happened to me which I can say that it was really weird.
To me, it's weird that Amazon can enter the prescription supply field at all, and weird that people would use a site like Amazon at all to access drugs that are typically dispensed by a pharmacist at a fixed, subsidised price.
Weird, these people are so weird.
Morphine's weird because it breaks down weirdly, but most people who have weird reactions to it also don't get squat from -morphones.
So it’s going to be weird, the whole thing is weird, we all understand that.
While the aesthetic is dead on, it's not so much weird history as it is regular history, which happens to be weird.
Trump's Weird Lie About Raking in Finland: A Closer Look" Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Trump making up another weird thing about a foreign country.
People think I’m weird, but that pruney feeling is what’s weird!
Weirdness is, ordinarily, a relative term. If you call something weird, you mean it seems improbable and inexplicable in comparison to other, non-weird things.
Nobody wants to be the weird kid; you just somehow end up being the weird kid.
A decade ago, that wouldn’t have been particularly disappointing, but these days, China makes some wonderfully weird, interesting cars that would give plenty of other countries’ automakers a run for their money.
After “Weird Al” Yankovic wraps his “vanity” tour in the isles next weekend, there’s no sign that the five-time Grammy-winning recording artist plans to slow down any time soon.
All they did was introduce them as being programmed to act exactly like humans where they even did weird things like become monks or farmers.
A lot of my gay friends, particularly the eccentric ones, will say the same thing, because when you’re walking down the street looking weird, you never know who might start in on you.
Although she was glad to have his testimony for her divorce proceedings, she still had a weird feeling about this man.
Common combinations with weird
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- weird and 17×
- the weird 14×
- weird to 11×
- it weird 10×
- is weird 9×
- really weird 8×
- of weird 8×
- and weird 7×
- weird that 7×
- this weird 6×