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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
strangely
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
silent
▪ Benjamin and Agrippa had fallen strangely silent.
▪ The press has been strangely silent about this event, which is vouched for by professional meteoriticists.
▪ The Kop was strangely silent, watching impassively as several clear chances came and went.
▪ The headlines seem to cry out for better laws, but most citizens remain strangely silent.
▪ As he disappeared, the great chamber fell strangely silent.
▪ Newham council has kept strangely silent about that.
▪ Fred had remained strangely silent all through the parting.
■ VERB
behave
▪ Mind you, if you think she behaved strangely, you should have seen me.
▪ So he got the job as the postman, yet even that didn't stop him behaving strangely.
▪ Many programs will crash or behave strangely if they suddenly run out of disk space or memory.
feel
▪ I felt strangely repelled at the thought of eating meat.
▪ Now I feel strangely at a loss in the leaving because I must bequeath what was never mine to keep.
▪ He felt strangely disoriented and feebly guilty and for a moment could not remember the crux of his sermon for tomorrow.
▪ It all feels strangely academic, as though you don't really care what happens next.
▪ His lips trembled, and he felt strangely compelled to shout a defiant slogan.
▪ She felt strangely restless, wanting to throw herself into every small task that awaited her throughout the house.
▪ I turned away from the brook and felt strangely restless.
look
▪ Just filling out to the half, it looked strangely unfinished.
▪ We went into the hallway, which now looked strangely barren.
▪ He looked strangely at me, muttered something about coming back within the hour, and sauntered off.
▪ And yet their eyes, their lips, a certain shy grin or quizzical cant of an eyebrow, look strangely familiar.
▪ Molassi, with his long blond hair and still expression, was made to look strangely angelic.
▪ From a distance it looks strangely like a chimney.
seem
▪ At a later period he missed meetings and seemed strangely distant in the pub.
▪ Off they come, as does my gray suit, which is nothing special but seems strangely fraudulent here.
▪ Certainly, he seemed strangely quiet and bemused as he recounted the extraordinary tale.
▪ The first word rose with unlimited aspiration, the second fell precipitously without hope, the third seemed strangely complaining.
▪ To Mr Utterson the streets seemed strangely empty and lonely.
▪ They seemed strangely modern, suggestively effective as a sculpture by Picasso; they lived in the now.
▪ It lacked co-ordination and Morrissey's ability to surprise people with words, seemed strangely lacking.
▪ The room seemed strangely without air.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
strangely/oddly/curiously etc enough
▪ And yet, strangely enough, he was.
▪ Everyone was hideously drunk except strangely enough myself.
▪ Her large grin and knotted black curls were, strangely enough, more memorable.
▪ It was a devastating headache but, oddly enough, as a rule he didn't mind it.
▪ Such basic work, oddly enough, has been largely neglected.
▪ The workers responded with hundreds of ideas and, oddly enough, management accepted and implemented many of them.
▪ Verence was right, oddly enough.
▪ Yet, strangely enough, it was Martinho the malais appeared to favour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After moving into the new house, she began behaving strangely.
▪ The whole city was strangely peaceful.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also, strangely, he noted there was a similarity in the faces of the aunt and niece.
▪ But at that time, biologists also saw sick, disoriented manatees acting strangely by curling their lips and arching their backs.
▪ Dickinson sailed down in slow, sweeping curves, feeling strangely innocent.
▪ She'd felt strangely vulnerable, half afraid, overcome by a mass of conflicting emotions.
▪ To Mr Utterson the streets seemed strangely empty and lonely.
▪ We went into the hallway, which now looked strangely barren.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strangely

Strangely \Strange"ly\, adv.

  1. As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  2. In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly.

    You all look strangely on me.
    --Shak.

    I do in justice charge thee . . . That thou commend it strangely to some place Where chance may nurse or end it.
    --Shak.

  3. In a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully.

    How strangely active are the arts of peace!
    --Dryden.

    It would strangely delight you to see with what spirit he converses.
    --Law.

Wiktionary
strangely

adv. 1 In a strange or coincidental manner. 2 (context archaic English) Surprisingly, wonderfully.

WordNet
strangely
  1. adv. in a strange way; "he was strangely silent"

  2. in a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper"; "he acted kind of funny" [syn: queerly, oddly, funnily, funny]

Usage examples of "strangely".

It was a position that gave, strangely, the sensations of both claustrophobia and acrophobia at the same time.

Eugenia, who, affrighted to see her thus strangely disordered, besought her to go back to the chaise.

The man of the scarred shoulder was staring at her strangely, as though astounded that she had come, though she had visited the Beng settlement many times before.

She spoke of Heir Haseloff as a rather weird but occasionally comical eccentric, who, once he was through with his strict but imaginatively conducted ballet exercises, cooked up strangely human machines in his cellar workshop.

Lord Wilmot, Colonel Roscarrock, Colonel Blague, and some others, came in, and almost started back on seeing how strangely the king was metamorphosed.

There was no answer at firstjust this tremendous, roaring voice blatting out the strangely regular sounds.

But when they looked like trees, it was like strangely human trees, and when they looked like people, it was like strangely branchy and leafy people - and all the time that queer lilting, rustling, cool, merry noise.

It seemed strangely incongruous and almost comical to Brewster that such an imposing and fearsome-looking giant should be so deferential to a man who barely stood higher than his kneecaps, and yet Bloody Bob stood there, squinting down and shuffling his foot in the dirt and looking very much abashed.

Strangely enough, Brine took comfort in the fact that this experience was invalidating every assumption he had ever made about the nature of the world.

She found brownwort, with its loose spike of strangely shaped brown flowers, in a damp and shady place near the water, and she collected the whole plants to make into a wash, for their skin-healing and itch-relieving properties.

Peeling clear of the wood, curling tighter and tighter, and finally crumbling into small bits with what must have been malignly silent suddenness, the portrait of Joseph Curwen had resigned forever its staring surveillance of the youth it so strangely resembled, and now lay scattered on the floor as a thin coating of fine blue-grey dust.

Finally Tom, to show that he was not obtuse about Marge, mentioned to Dickie that he thought she was acting strangely.

The ground surrounding your plant should be kept clear of other weeds but, strangely enough, insects ignore marihuana and do no harm.

Everything was manicured, managed, perfect, the strangely shaped trees not seeming to have so much as a leaf out of place, the amber-colored grass seemingly mown with micrometric precision.

Western devotion has been caught by the mystic and poetical character of Pantheism and is, on the whole, strangely blind to its actual outcome in the life of its devotees.