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Example sentences for: quirky
How can you use “quirky” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
With its statue of Columbus, the main square is elegant, and the Museo Oscar María de Rojas (at Avenida 4 and Calle 12) houses a quirky, varied collection of items, from slaves’ manacles to a 19th-century funeral coach and two fleas all dressed up to dance.
The recently published Oxford Thesaurus , by Laurence Urdang, contains thousands of example sentences to illustrate usage, including a sprinkling of quirky specimens, all from the American Edition; these were excised from the British Edition on the grounds that they were distracting
They're half-right: The movie is a collision between inspiration and tastelessness, between the defiantly quirky and the wholesomely homogenized.
What one does not expect in a book of this kind--a book that is technical even as it is beautiful--is that the author will be not just fastidious but also an evocative and wonderfully quirky writer.
Where Shaw's characters tend to represent views pitted against each other, Hare's cannot resist becoming genuine characters--contradictory, quirky, and imperfect both as heroes and villains.