Queer Sentence Examples

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  • They wore blue uniforms and queer little caps.

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  • It's this queer light that gives her that color.

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  • The sky had grown darker again and the wind made queer sobbing sounds as it swept over the valley.

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  • It's in charge of the queer fellow we saw without his boots.

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  • It's queer," he added after a pause, "that you should have suspected me!"

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  • A queer name, is it not?

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  • A man got up and came to see what this queer big fellow was laughing at all by himself.

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  • But I've noticed that many queer things happen in fairy countries.

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  • He began making queer signs and passes toward the Wizard; but the little man did not watch him long.

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  • His fiction includes Mr Blake's Walking Stick (1869), for children; The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1871); The End of the World (1872); The Mystery of Metropolisville (1873); The Circuit Rider (1874); Rosy (1878); The Hoosier Schoolboy (1883); The Book of Queer Stories (1884), for children; The Graysons (1888), an excellent novel; The Faith Doctor (1891); and Duf f els (1893), short stories.

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  • The Sawhorse stopped at the same time and stared at the other with its queer protruding eyes, which were mere knots in the log that formed its body.

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  • The whole book is a queer mixture of Hellenism and Hebraism, in which the same method of allegory is applied to Homer and Hesiod as to Moses.

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  • The other poems of Petter Dass are less universally read; they abound, however, in queer turns of thought, and fine homely fancies.

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  • These were very numerous, for the place was thickly inhabited, and a large group of the queer people clustered near, gazing sharply upon the strangers who had emerged from the long spiral stairway.

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  • It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

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  • The huntsman standing in the hollow moved and loosed his borzois, and Nicholas saw a queer, short-legged red fox with a fine brush going hard across the field.

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  • The group of these queer creatures which was discovered clustered near the stairs at first remained staring and motionless, glaring with evil eyes at the intruders who had so suddenly appeared in their land.

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  • He saw that his championship of the doctor's wife in her queer trap might expose him to what he dreaded more than anything in the world--to ridicule; but his instinct urged him on.

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  • Then he lifted his head, stretched his neck as if he intended to say something, but immediately, with affected indifference, began to hum to himself, producing a queer sound which immediately broke off.

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  • Very queer - for I try to be careful.

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  • How queer all living creatures are, except donkeys!

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  • Lovely incrustations alternate with queer and grotesque figures.

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  • He's as queer as a three-dollar bill.

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  • I just couldn't eat the school dinners at all, my stomach was feeling so queer.

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  • This is a bit queer at first but you soon get used to it.

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  • I must say that the Conservative Party have attracted some very queer folk.

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  • He certainly was a queer creature, yet Trot decided he was not at all frightful.

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  • A fortnight later, you feel queer, Somehow lose your immune veneer.

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  • It signals to young people that going out and killing a queer is okay.

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  • A thing might have these two opposite vices; but it must be a rather queer thing if it did.

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  • That there was something queer about the marriage, however, seemed certain.

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  • Well, there 's nowt so queer as folk, is there?

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  • Queer theorists ' attack on identity politics seems to me to be very misguided.

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  • I just could n't eat the school dinners at all, my stomach was feeling so queer.

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  • Praevaricare meant literally to walk with the legs very wide apart, to straddle, hence to walk crookedly, to stray from the direct road, varicus, straddling, being derived from varus, bow-legged, a word which has been connected etymologically with German quer, transverse, across, and English "queer."

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  • As a 2008 comment thread on the AfterEllen site shows, many Indian lesbians are finding support from their friends, social groups such as Washington D.C.-based "Khush Girls" (an offshoot of the "Khush D.C." queer advocacy organization).

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  • The American version is hosted by Carson Kressley, formerly of the makeover show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

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  • The show premiered on Food Network in 2009 and is hosted by Ted Allen of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Top Chef fame.

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  • Groomer Has It is hosted by Jai Rodriguez, who is best known as the guide to culture on the Bravo reality show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

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  • He co-edited the anthology " Queer Crips, " winner of a Lambda Literary Award.

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  • The masculine image of contemporary queer fashion thus embodies the eroticism of maleness without the violent menace of heterosexual machismo.

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  • Queer history should be centered upon queer history should be centered upon queer people, not upon people who hate queers.

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  • He is a little queer in his ideas an enthusiast in some branches of science.

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  • As the only queer literary and arts journal in the UK, we want to keep growing and improving.

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  • It is quite mistaken to suggest that there can be no queer ethnic community simply because our parents are not queer.

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  • I don't much care for his use of the word ' queer ' either.

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  • The White Camelia with a similar history had a similar organization, without the queer titles.

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  • The condition of the observatory at the time of his appointment was such that Lord Auckland, the first lord of the Admiralty, considered that "it ought to be cleared out," while Airy admitted that "it was in a queer state."

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  • In Transylvania the princes of the Bathory family (1571-1604) were ardent disciples of the Jesuit fathers, and Sigismund Bathory in particular persecuted fiercely, his fury being especially directed against the queer judaizing sect known as the Sabbatarians, whose tenets were adopted by the Szeklers, the most savage of " the three nations " of Transylvania, many thousands of whom were, after a bloody struggle, forced to emigrate.

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  • Did I reject a queer identity to assume a gay one?

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  • I do n't much care for his use of the word ' queer ' either.

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  • Her work has been featured in several publications and recently on the Bravo! series, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

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  • C. Umbilicus is a hardy British plant, with queer rounded leaves almost like a tiny mushroom, and greenish-yellow flowers in June.

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  • The male figures look like they're fresh off the set of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

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  • Queer Future is another great place for dating because it has an advanced search engine to find exactly what you are looking for in a mate.

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  • Curiously enough, it never occurred to me to call Greek patronymics "queer."

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  • Queer history should be centered upon queer people, not upon people who hate queers.

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  • I have a queer sensation; the dead entries begin to be alive.

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  • The news section will provide you with Queer Future current events and news from around the globe.

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  • Proponents of this rumor point first to Harper's involvement in a workout DVD called Queer Abs.

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  • There is even debate in the 'slash community' whether a story about a canonical gay relationship (such as between the characters Brian and Justin on Queer as Folk) can even be considered 'slash'.

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  • He was very kind, good and devout man, but very queer; an old bachelor, followed his own ways.

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  • I rather dread him writing about the queer stuff.

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  • Abs are no longer abs are no longer abs, they're Queer Abs, and anybody who has abs, is Queer?

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