How to Use bizarro in a Sentence
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Even in the bizarro world of meat racing, there are still rules to abide by.
—Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
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His movies are goofs, larks, stunts, knowingly arch bizarro-world riffs.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2026
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The flies were confused by this bizarro-world plume and moved away from the center rather than toward it.
—Dana MacKenzie, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023
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The flies were confused by this bizarro-world plume and moved away from the center rather than toward it.
—Dana MacKenzie, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
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That scene on the plane really felt like a bizarro Walt and Jesse scene.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
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In her hands, the film gets bizarro and gory without ever being offputting.
—Photo: Courtesy Of Mgm., refinery29.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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The most recent bizarro episode in the current election might explain why.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2024
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Who, aghast at that spectacle, could have imagined the bizarro world that would follow?
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
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There’s a sense of sadness mixed with the bizarro world of playing games on the East Coast.
—Manny Navarro, The Athletic, 23 July 2024
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It’s been over two years since the cliffhanger ending of the bizarro sci-fi office thriller’s first season.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 13 July 2024
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With Mike Tyler, Evans gets to play a bizarro-world version of himself.
—Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
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Can some of the other Idaho coffee drive-thrus step up their bizarro sugar-bomb drink games?
—Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 8 Sep. 2025
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Once, for all of a few days, Willy Finnegan was on the cusp of playing in a bizarro version of the major leagues.
—Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
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The film has subsequently inspired a surprising number of memes, adding to its bizarro lore.
—Meg Walters, EW.com, 28 July 2022
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It’ll be played in full this summer, complemented by the Lips’ bizarro, one-of-a-kind circus of a live show.
—Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2023
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The bizarro outcome might also have packed greater shock value if it hadn’t been so plainly telegraphed at various points.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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But the real test would be pulling off a finale that could weave together the bizarro storylines between a vault dweller, a knight and a ghoul.
—Meredith Woerner, Variety, 21 June 2024
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To continue our bizarro billiards metaphor, imagine that one person plays our game alone in a room for a random period of time.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2023
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Some of these actors are taking on meaty, episode-shifting roles, and others are just playing bizarro versions of themselves in a cheeky cameo.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 6 July 2024
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For all intents and purposes, Miquela fits right in with the rest of the bizarro universe of social media celebrity.
—Eric Chang, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2017
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The lone figure in the image seems to be trapped in some bizarro universe where talk of the Popeyes fried chicken sandwich is pure mythology.
—Wired, 29 Aug. 2019
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These trades also feel like a bizarro echo of a deal by previous Canucks management almost exactly one year ago.
—Thomas Drance, New York Times, 30 June 2026
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In this bizarro world where black people are supervillains and white eyes can see guns that do not exist, these heroes are virtually unstoppable.
—Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 June 2018
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The 12-3 Broncos were a bizarro version of themselves against the 11-4 Jaguars.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2025
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In Cygnet Theatre’s enormously creative venture into the bizarro world, a string of naughty children gets what’s coming to them.
—David L. Coddon, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2017
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That said, the rest of the world would almost certainly appreciate it if Moscow ended testing such a dangerous, bizarro weapon.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2018
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But in the extreme conditions of a collapsing star, the singularity never forms, and instead the black hole becomes a bridge to a white hole—a black hole’s bizarro twin.
—Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2025
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Servais was fired a week later, taking the fall for an offense that has struggled against almost everyone this season, including the Tigers’ bizarro bullpen.
—Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024
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In the bizarro world of Friday’s coronavirus fears, the price of safe-haven gold fell, and cruise line stocks rose, even as the overall market continued its astounding selloff.
—James MacKintosh, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2020
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Tim Robinson's bizarro sketch show is one of the best things on Netflix — a chaotic collection of comedy, screaming, and excellent car ideas.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 24 May 2023
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