He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again.

His strange habit makes sense when you consider that he's an environmental scientist who studies how to reduce litter, including things that fall off garbage trucks as they drive down the road.

I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful words.

Many of our conversations are gossip, I have noticed three effects of gossip: It can hurt people, it can give gossipers a strange kind of satisfaction, and it can cause social pressures in a group.

On the station, the ordinary becomes strange.

Send us a tale about the strange behaviour of unique pets or wildlife in up 300 words.

Teams of four, dressed in a variety of strange and funny clothes, roll a complete cheese along a 50-metre course.

This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem--inability to read.

We are facing today a strange new world and we are all wondering what we are going to do with it.

This is the strangest bug I've ever seen.

Still, I find it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home regularly.

Children's books are like dog food in that the purchasers are not the consumers, so the market (and the marketing) is inherently strange.

His doctors were puzzled by the strange case of permanent sleeplessness.

You would not be surprised if a stranger tried to shake hands when you were introduced, but you might be a little startled if they bowed, started to stroke you or kissed you on both cheeks.

It was interesting to see such a strange sight, but there were a lot of people around and I was a bit worried about the bees and the people stopping to look.

She worked out that, if the left hemisphere was staying alert to keep guard in a strange environment, then it would react to the irregular beeps by stirring people from sleep and would ignore the regularly timed ones.

So it may seem rather strange that I have returned to college to finish the degree I left undone some four decades ago.

She has just graduated from college and got a job at an advertising agency when she began to sense that something strange was going on inside her body.

Nobody ever had a better time or did more exotic strange things than I did in an 80-year period

The question would have sounded strange not long ago.