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.


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