strange to say

1. Also, strangely enough. Surprisingly, curiously, unaccountably, as in Strange to say, all the boys in his class are six feet tall or taller, or I've never been to the circus, strangely enough. This idiom was first recorded in 1697 as strange to relate.

Example Sentences

All of which, strange to say, makes Mr. Curry’s memoir the more gripping.

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Then there was the light pollution, worsening crime, and, strange to say, a lot of black bears roaming the city streets.

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Strange to say, but this awful period seems almost quaint by comparison with our current discord.

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Feels strange to say, doesn't it?

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“But I think it’s a little bit strange to say ‘no’ to some kind of new technology when it’s developed in the right manner.

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