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