6 sentences with 'bizarre'
Example sentences and phrases with the word bizarre and other words derived from it.
• « Futurist art itself was often bizarre and provocative - a Futurist work consisted of a curtain opening to an empty stage, the sound of a gunshot and a scream offstage, and the closing of the curtain. »
• « One of the most bizarre and chilling episodes of the Holocaust was the Nazi takeover of Hungary in mid-1944. There, in what had been a staunch German ally, more than 700,000 Jews had survived the war, "protected" in the sense that the Hungarian government had resisted German demands to hand over its Jews for murder. »
• « Typically, Stalin's agents used torture to force hapless victims to confess to bizarre charges such as conspiring with Germany or (later) the United States to bring down the Soviet Union from within. »
• « How could one explain a shell as bizarre as the whelk, with a crown of spiral-shaped protuberances at one end, and an elongated beak at the other? Why was its interior so amazingly sculpted, with smooth, equidistant ribs forming a spiral that extended beyond the reach of my fingers? »
• « Keeney received a call from Jack Haeussinger, an investigator with the San Diego Police Department's narcotics division. Haeussinger had been keeping tabs on the case of Deana's bizarre death while trying to chase down suspect Jimmy Coates for parole violations. »
• « The exotic and sometimes bizarre appearances and habits of animals in the Americas that were previously unknown to Europeans, such as manatees, sloths and venomous snakes, confirmed this association. »