How to Use bizarre in a Sentence

bizarre

1 of 2 adjective
  • I just heard the most bizarre story.
  • She wore a bizarre outfit.
  • The whole thing was just so bizarre.
    Charlie Harding, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2026
  • How bizarre was that day on set?
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Spelled out, the thought process is bizarre.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • D4vd is in the midst of a bizarre week.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The chase for the home run crown might turn even more bizarre.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2019
  • That race turned out to have a bunch of bizarre twists and turns.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • The entire thing is so bizarre.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 19 June 2026
  • That seems like a bizarre reading to me.
    Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Here's a look at some of the most bizarre cup draws of all time.
    SI.com, 21 June 2019
  • The result of this bizarre tirade?
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • This isn’t just a one-off bizarre moment.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2026
  • That bizarre detail gives the whole thing a strange twist.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
  • Huff then missed both free throws to seal the bizarre ending.
    Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The games in the parlor room of the inn are even more bizarre.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
  • That's bizarre, to have gone from nine years singing all the time, day in day out.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • This is a bizarre story — but par for the course at the same time.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022
  • From the boring to the bizarre, there’s no telling what will turn up.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • And to have the feds getting in the way of this thing, talk about bizarre.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • All three runners had reached base, and all were tagged out on one bizarre play.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The game ended on a bizarre double play.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • The last few months have been bizarre and hard to comprehend.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 1 June 2020
  • The whole performance is bizarre, to say the least.
    Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Sometimes football throws up these bizarre twists of fate.
    Chris McKenna, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The trend is simple and bizarre in the way that these things always are.
    Jack Moore, GQ, 26 Jan. 2018
  • At times there are journeys in the mind of an actor that can seem bizarre.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Its skeleton is among the most bizarre of all dinosaurs, the study said.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 May 2021
  • Well, what happened next was pretty bizarre.
    Tom Margenau, Dallas Morning News, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Gravity is such a bizarre thing.
    Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2026

bizarre

2 of 2 noun
  • Cole left with a five-run inning full of the bizarre on his resume.
    Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 2020-09-05
  • There’s a mix of the old-fashioned bizarre with rampant, of-the-moment social anxiety.
    Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 2021-08-25
  • Here are three winners, and losers, of baseball's annual midsummer bizarre.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 2017-08-01
  • Simply put, perhaps something bizarre happened with the Yankees.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 2021-05-18
  • The 212 bronze, iron and granite sculptures examine the human form, ranging from the beautiful to the bizarre.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 2021-10-15
  • Theorists are in a frenzy over these bizarre, but potentially useful, hypothetical particles that can only move in combination with one another. Save this story for later.
    Thomas Lewton, Wired, 2021-08-01
  • The Instagram account grew bizarre: Spears regularly posted multiple near-identical photos of herself, and also videos of herself dancing alone, passionately, in her house.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 2021-07-03
  • For mainstream media outlets, which endlessly covered Trump’s 2016 campaign as a bizarre and (for them, at least) lucrative spectacle, Trump’s fitful public re-emergence is something of a test.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2021-09-13
  • Founded in 1980 in Milan, Italy, the Memphis Group was a collective of designers and architects whose colorful, attention-grabbing style verged on the bizarre.
    Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2021-03-31

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