Example Sentences

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“Malcolm in the Middle,” a popular series about a tightly knit calamitous family of weirdos and the relatively less weird child at its center, is back after 20 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The military swarms in to build a metal wall around the titanic alien, and Blunt’s cozy community of 700 swells to more than 100,000: scientists, journalists, tourists, opportunists and the inevitable grifters, criminals and weirdos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Instead, the plaintiffs sometimes came across as a rogue’s gallery of weirdos, abusers, and fortune seekers.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025

Weiner’s songs have always celebrated the people on the edges, the weirdos and the freaks.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2025

“Yup. The captain’s worried about weirdos trying to do something to it. But Sookie promised me a cooler full of lobsters if I sit here all night. You ready to go?”

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen