But first we answer a question about the strange American use of the number eighty-six.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

The yellow and green colors give the painting a strange and upsetting mood.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Her behavior seems only a little strange at first.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

"It ranged from looking at me when I would ask a question as though something was very strange and then some other student would ask the same question and the teacher would say, 'This is an astute observation.' (SAYING...) Despite a gradual increase in women graduating with undergraduate and graduate degrees in science fields, the gap between men and women remains significant in the U.S.workplace.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

And everywhere was silence- the strange silence that comes only to a room where the clock has stopped ticking.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

We reported last week that Helen Keller suffered from a strange sickness when she was only nineteen months old.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

He took a room in an old house next to a magnificent garden filled with strange flowers and other plants.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

It caused strange thoughts. He said the cold and silence of this frozen world seemed to increase a man's fear of death.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

It was a very strange- looking instrument, so he hid it inside the body of a traditional guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

One day in eighteen seventy-nine while delivering mail Mister Cheval found a rock with a strange shape.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Television screens show Tim Burtons strange cartoon about a character called Stainboy. Detailed drawings show how he created the characters in his films.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

ong before the first Europeans arrived in the New World, a strange looking animal lived on the rich grasses of the western plains.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

She looked strange when she was a child, but she grew up to be a beautiful woman.

VOA: special.2010.06.13