Example Sentences

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There was a freakishness about the four goals and the whole occasion.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Usher’s freakishness is the very source of his fabulousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Coleman wrote in an obituary in the Village Voice, Arbus was interested in “the freakishness of normalcy and the normalcy of freakishness.”

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022

There was much more to it, and the text alone doesn't do justice to the freakishness of the moment.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2020

Monsters always command attention, if only for their freakishness.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson