Example sentences for: quirk

How can you use “quirk” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ,” mind you), whose name does not ring the bells in my head that are (w)rung by names like Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Thatcher, and Marie, Queen of Rumania, is identified as “the” model, as if she were being distinguished from the Rachael Garley who succeeded Sir Randolph Quirk as president of the British Academy and that other Rachael Garley whom we all know to be the (not “a”) power behind Boris Yeltsin or Saddam Husein.

  • By the "marriage penalty," Hutchison means the quirk in the tax code that pushes married people into higher tax brackets than their unmarried counterparts.

  • Perhaps we are grumpier than usual because the two-volume Grammar of the English Language , by George O. Curme, Verbatim Books, (which is more comprehensive than A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language , by Quirk, Greenbaum, et al.), and VERBATIM itself are omitted from the section called Suggestions for Further Reading.

  • Now where do I go for quirk?

  • Experts claim that there are many yet to be explored and charted, and perhaps the Crystal Cave system might itself have been left undiscovered were it not for a quirk of fate.


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