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Sentence Examples It seemed very out of place in the normal crowd of Saturday morning grocery store drudges. Her eyes were damp with tears and her face pale with fright and pain, so her forced smile seemed very out of place. I was wearing nothing but boxer shorts, a tank top, and a jacket that looked ridiculously out of place. And as Ebraun's buddies probably shared his views on the needlessness of her calling, she was going to feel very out of place. Its hero is a man of silent morality from a different era, wide-eyed, soft-hearted and out of place. Who hasn't broken an impending fall with an outstretched hand, which can jar the bones of the elbow out of place? A multi-coloured straw sombrero from Acapulco in Mexico seemed equally out of place on the Christmas tree. He looks a bit like a courier, somewhat out of place in the opulent surroundings. The handbrake looks very out of place and somewhat flimsy compared to the rest of the interior. Dirt and rock scraped beneath Lior's red boots, sounding far too loud and out of place in the silent city. If I don't hold the bobbin on the spindle, it slides just far enough out that the notch slides out of place and it won't wind. For example, when a bony joint in the spine, called a vertebra, is out of place, it is called a vertebral subluxation. We felt kinda out of place here by virtue of not wearing polished shoes, smart pants and a designer shirt. As a squanderer of chances he would not have been out of place as a Rangers player yesterday. He is so suave he won't run for fear of getting a strand of hair out of place. Furniture was pushed out of place, walls spattered with teabag stains and the floor was covered in glitter. Not even a stand of hair was out of place, but that didn't surprise him with the amount of hair spray that she used. Toby adjusted the man's tie and fixed a hair that was out of place, patted him on the arm with a smile and walked away. She felt a sudden urge to straighten his curly brown hair where it had fallen out of place. The young lady in the Range Rover emerges from the rest room with nary a hair out of place. Show More Sentences What seems more likely is that he is now so celebrated by the establishment that he is forgiven the odd pint or hair out of place. He simply implied that the chair was out of place and he moved it to where he thought it should be. Many Scots-Italians feel slightly out of place in both countries, outsiders wherever they go. The neat and professionally dressed men looked out of place in the homey messy surroundings. It looked so awkward and out of place up in the forest canopy, I was worried at any moment it might crash down on us. While that works in a movie as unreal as Anchorman or Elf, it feels out of place in an alleged family comedy. He said the distance from neighbouring properties was acceptable and the design of the new building would be out of place. His diving technique would certainly not be out of place in an Olympic pool. I wouldn't call the new shelters ugly, but they certainly look out of place. Snow wouldn't have been out of place and I remember always longing for a white Christmas. A moment later Kelley walked into the kitchen dressed immaculately in a crisp white shirt and blue jeans, not a hair out of place. Eliza said that she had just gone to the movies, but she was wearing a very expensive tailored suit in pearl gray, with not a hair out of place. His mustache was neatly trimmed and his hair meticulously combed, not a hair out of place. He turned around, not a hair out of place, the pen poking out the top of his breast pocket. Carpeted in a rich red and filled with carved furniture, the sapphire blue hangings, walls and cushions looked out of place. Some dresses feature freaky frilled hemlines, and striped suits were shown with dramatic hats that wouldn't have looked out of place at Ascot. But suave man of mystery he isn't, and he just looks uncomfortable and out of place throughout the film. He is splashing fish heads over the side of the boat, looking sick and out of place. Kirsty felt out of place at Simon's office today, pale and overdressed, but at dinner, after gulping down a drink, she relaxes. I've never felt out of place, having picked up a trowel or carried a hod for a living. Show More Sentences His visitations seemed shockingly out of place, like finding chicken Kiev on the menu of an American bistro. If this all sounds a bit silly, over-the-top, or childish, none of it seemed out of place. It's more the case that realistic, heart-rending emotions are simply out of place in the hyperreal Wenders world. She did not look out of place in a comedy film, but neither did she seem completely comfortable. The decor wouldn't be out of place in a furniture showroom, and our rooms were clean, bright and very comfy. Not only would it look out of place, says the conservation panel, but it would be incompatible with grazing livestock. Two Scottish players appeared in this exalted company and did not look out of place. He pulled his knees up to his chest and wrapped his arms around his legs feeling very out of place. Feeling strangely out of place, DJ fiddled with her fingers in her lap and looked around nervously. There seems to be a growing consensus that any orientation toward the future is somehow out of place. His film of the gallery poignantly documents how out of place human beings can be in Mies' architecture. We had to cancel more than 200 flights due to aircraft and flight crew being out of place or exceeding their legal working hours. The atmospheric effects, which vary depending on the pool hall you play in, seem a bit out of place and the table effects are poorly timed. He populates his worlds with characters that are not out of place in the fabricated environments. She has a walk that wouldn't look out of place on a sumo wrestler and a laugh which is punctuated with alarmingly porcine snorts. On a team filled with players who are out of position or out of place, pitching was supposed to be a strength. American folk songs and patriotic songs played in the background but seemed strangely out of place in such an unfamiliar setting. Something new or out of place can potentially instigate a serious traffic jam. All perfectly couth and prosperous, not a blade of grass out of place, but unbelievably boring. Physically, he looks as if he wouldn't be out of place in the front row of a rugby scrum. Show More Sentences His wood brown hair was gelled into spikes as usual and not a hair dared to venture out of place. I spend time with enough decadents to get used to their somewhat skewed sense of fashion, but this young man looks out of place within himself. Her silky mane of angelic blonde hair still remained unchanged, but it now looked hideously out of place on her demoniac head. He favors a style of knitted shirts and casual slacks that would not look out of place on a golf course. She was starting to feel out of place in her dress slacks and matching jacket. These holiday season signs seem eerily out of place in this grief-stricken city. This is not to say that some element of danger or enticement would be out of place in the film. He raised his hand, muscles flowing in and out of place like a water clock resetting itself. They stayed for a while, talking quietly in the sun but it was clear they felt out of place, out of their own world. And delicious as it is, the rack of lamb seems unnervingly out of place on a menu alongside sesame noodles. The whole mystery-gemstones-as-nuclear-fuel angle feels ripped off from a grade-B sci-fi-flick, and out of place in an urban actioner. A weed is defined as a plant out of place, and many vine-growers regard a weedy vineyard as a sign of poor management. That was their strength, so it was hard for him to try and find the gaps, but he certainly did not look out of place whatsoever. Another girl decided she had to re-do her hair every time it fell out of place. Nearby trees and other bits of greenery are rendered abstractly, seeming stylized and out of place. I can make soup, and enjoy lots of yummy dishes that just seem out of place in summer. The squiggly lines on the livery that depict water and mountains seem so out of place in northern Virginia. Lucy was perfect, blonde hair, not a hair out of place, tall, model looks and a friendly expression. The last scene in particular appears out of place, almost as if it was tacked on at a later date to provide a better sense of closure. The magnate's style creates interesting theatre, but is out of place in a modern boardroom. Show More Sentences While some rules seem a bit quaint, most 19th Century table manners would not be out of place today. My silence fills the car, and a lone bushel of tumbleweed scooting through the scene wouldn't exactly seem out of place. The only out of place sounds were the screams coming from the roller coaster just a lengths away from the hotel. Mr Whitby said the man was quite large, wearing a baseball cap and a thick coat, which looked out of place in the warm weather. I feel a little out of place in my neatly pressed tennis shorts, matching shirt and new pair of Adidas sneakers. Her hero's commitment to a vision of honorable politics is clearly out of place in a context of political corruption, baseness, and compromise. The best travel writing shoots off in a thousand directions while never letting a hair get out of place. A normal looking black car was parked by mine, looking out of place in the sea of Beemers. As we go on through, it will be entirely up to members to move an amendment if they think a word is out of place or is not understood. Okay, maybe not a trailer park, but someone who could live in a trailer park and wouldn't be out of place. As Katt leaned her head down to drink her beverage a lock of hair fell out of place into her eyes. Maybe the 53-year-old singer looks a little out of place standing among a bevy of beautiful models in a music video. These little acacia and bird cherry trees look a little out of place as they rock in tandem with the waves in the backwaters. A troupe of Morris dancers wouldn't have looked out of place, prancing about on the village green. Capital punishment seemed an unacceptable relic of monarchical governments, out of place in a republic. However, it took so long that the tide turned and started to pull her out of place. He climbed a tree he was next to, a tall, thick one that looked out of place, and slowly rotated his sight around, looking for something. I was feeling more and more out of place, but it was all making me laugh to myself. Basically this is a fluffy romantic comedy, so it seems out of place to complain that it's predictable and unchallenging. Travelling alone, she looked entirely out of place among the skimpily dressed holidaymakers. Show More Sentences But seeing them dance and performing in unison, not a step out of place, makes one believe that they can hear the music in their head. She may have been living in Los Angeles for a long time, but she has the native intelligence for the character and never feels out of place. The play, though it is chronologically out of place, presents further elaborations on the figuring of identity, and metaphors of market and commercial exchange. Now, whereas my face was blighted by angry red spots and a nose that wouldn't have looked out of place on an aardvark, this boy had unreally smooth skin and a tiny nose. Others look out of place at a competition, like the stodgy 1994 Buick Regal station wagon retrofitted to run on a mix of hydrogen and corn alcohol, or ethanol. If an animal threatened to get out of place, a hiss or a shout or a well-aimed rock would turn it back where it belonged, but such measures were not often necessary. Given the fact that most of this paraphernalia hearkens back to movies of yore, only a modern projection screen, like the ones in Vic's lecture theatres, seems out of place. She felt out of place and in danger, but told herself that she was a lady of the court and with her sharp words and authority, she could defend herself. The thing looked most definitely out of place, so I had to take a snapshot with the camera phone that one of my mates has handed down to me just recently. A sociologist, a cyberneticist, or indeed an anthropologist would have been equally out of place at that recent art historical conference on medium. I remember how out of place I felt, sipping my drink alone on the couch while the getting-ready activities swirled around me. Oddly out of place, these slightly kitchy slightly ahead of their time, super detailed works done for hire stand out against the sloppiness in many other galleries. These positive emotions are not at all out of place, but need to be tempered by the sober realization that the potential for injury is ever present. This would not be out of place in a much older Neolithic chambered tomb. We were the ones out of place and I do the best I can to deal with it. If you're after a dance floor that is occupied by people who wouldn't look out of place at a church hall barn dance then this is the place for you. We stayed at Castle Venlaw Hotel, an 18th Century country castle in the Scottish baronial style, which wouldn't look out of place in northern France. He looked out of place and his use of urban street lingo was confusing. Ito was accompanied at the party by four men in identical black suits who looked wildly out of place in the hippie-garbed crowd. She uses few raw materials, the most prominent of these being a melancholy, dance-like theme that would not have been out of place in one of Chopin's mazurkas. Show More Sentences Her people are crying in front of her and she felt out of place. Here he fights a losing battle against a formulaic script and a clunky, cliff-hanging finale that wouldn't have seemed out of place in a silent melodrama. Bass looked slightly out of place at that long-ago Paris Review party, despite being the centerpiece of the evening. In the far distance I can just make out the snow-capped mountains that characterise the Bosnian landscape but which look a little out of place from my sun-baked surroundings. Cuomo was prepped and predictable, with not a phrase out of place, not a phrase that surprised. Better suited to countries where the sky is blue from May to September, they look glossy and glamorous on holiday but out of place back in Blighty. The sunny weather somehow morphed into gales, bright sunny intervals, a thunderstorm that would not have been out of place in the tropics and light showers. It feels bizarrely out of place, and the horde of modish Angelenos decide to capture it on their iPhones and Androids. This, however, did not always make up for my often feeling out of place, unhip, and unnoticed at the magazine where I worked. That's why Britain, as a nation, can't handle it when a strand is out of place. Spectacular aerial stunts and jumps seem slightly out of place. Before long, however, he began to feel out of place and went back downstairs for a while to chat up the cook. They tore up two of the rails, taking out the spikes, but leaving the rails in position, as they knew that the jar of the train would be sufficient to throw them out of place. At the end of the day, there were all these 18-year-olds sitting on the floor, sweating and exhausted, and there was this 57-year-old woman, not a hair out of place. It looked distorted and out of place with its crooked hands and bent face. We dropped down to Barnclose Farm, which is a somewhat out of place suburban and modern dwelling sited opposite a notable and charming ancient cruck house. The chorus here wouldn't sound out of place at all in an emo song. The entourage, so out of place in the one-on-one battle arena, soon left the stage. Well, I am not the sort of person to encourage illegal activity, but in the face of such wilful neglect and destructiveness, flying pickets would not seem out of place. A bronze air vent emerges from the wall, looking strangely out of place. Show More Sentences She was badly injured and her spine was wrenched out of place. But you have to be a real wizard in the kitchen to be able to turn a box of random ingredients into a meal that would not feel out of place at a fancy restaurant. The archetypal mingler, it never looks out of place and adds buoyancy to heavy planting schemes. Suited men could stroll through crowds of sunbathers and still not look out of place in this Barry Island beachscape from the Swinging Sixties. For those who feel out of place among extraverts, realize that you don't have to change your personality. So, the inclusion of my personal opinions in the original apazine articles was not, I think, out of place. This place is a sure cure for a gimp's feeling out of place and a sure cure for a normie feeling awkward around a wheelchair. I always feel out of place when I am around people. I feel obnoxious if I laugh or talk too much. Give him a big dress and a beauty mark and he wouldn't look out of place at Eastbourne Theatre this Christmas. Before proceeding to this survey a few words regarding the taxonomics of the organism may not be out of place. Scatter rugs can radically change the appearance of a floor if you tire of it, but can look out of place on striking backgrounds. What in your camp may appear to be modern or out of place, but is actually documentable to your specific impression? Lynne and Jo transform into elegant North Yorkshire Superwomen guaranteed never to put a soup spoon out of place. If I just glopped the bedding into the stock and slid in the receiver, most of the bedding would be pushed out of place. Currently, things were being fast-forwarded, the physical keycard can soon be out of place. Before you know it, you'll have the whole place looking spic and span, with not a thing out of place. Ungregarious, he was out of place in a crowd and his discomfort was exacerbated when he was outside his own class. Though representing himself as a spokesman for the common man, he often appeared out of place with real working people. I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place. Yet as Fermanagh boss Pete McGrath said afterwards, they wouldn't have looked out of place playing in the Division Two final or even Division One. Show More Sentences If I had so much as a press stud out of place the fans would notice. Some chroniclers claimed that the despondent Richard had starved himself, which would not have been out of place with what is known of Richard's character. Winters's complex matrices and Dunham's slapstick psychodramas seemed out of place among paintings by younger artists obsessed with systems, mass media, and new technology. Dele Alli, playing with a peacock-like spread of feathers, wafted one chance over an exposed net for a miss that was completely out of place with the rest of his display. He has always kept an orderly kitchen, with nothing out of place. I am sure there have been a few bad hair days in the Prescott household recently and I bet there are more than a few hair roots out of place at present. The routine proceeds with clocklike precision, until Steph finds herself out of place when a hungry orca performs an out-of-water trick a little too soon. The threads may gall if overtightened or have been corroding in salty air, so a liberal coating of lanolin or a heavy grease is not out of place on any and all threads. Examples from Classical Literature But at Orange their sparkle vanished, and they were jarringly out of place. Making his way slowly through the night crowds and electrophobia of lower Manhattan, Dorn felt peacefully out of place. Morland, with his ripply hair and the features of a Fra Angelico angel, would seem out of place in khaki. This story has an uncouth and barbarous air and seems out of place even in puranic mythology. Jon watched him a while, empathizing with his occasional looks that told how out of place he felt. The ring in wickless stoves may not be thick enough, or they may have slipped out of place, or become broken. Gardens are sometimes bordered with escallop shells, which are neat enough but seem rather out of place among flowers. It would, therefore, be irrelevant and out of place to examine here, whether the doctrine of tyrannicide deserves that title. That would involve an excursus on Irish topography, which would be, to say the least, out of place. Then Lear declaims a monolog on the unfairness of legal judgment, which is quite out of place in the mouth of the insane Lear. A few words on the latest attempt which has been made to naturalize an exotic bird in England will not seem out of place here. He asserts also that vibrato is a trick invented after that day and out of place in the music of that period. Old and weather-beaten, out of place there, it held and fascinated the gaze. The aspect of nature was so beneficent that evil deeds seemed to be out of place in that Fair Isle. With the exception of v. 21, which is here out of place, and has possibly been introduced from xx. But thoughts so unsettling were out of place, in the midst of a gymkhana with the grand climax imminent. In this cabaletta we noticed a tendency to show off vocal gifts which may be just a little out of place. In his version of the rich Virgilian measure they are especially out of place. If they are superfluous and out of place, the absence of exaggeration or absurdity negatives their classification as choreic. It proved to be a little out of place, but otherwise he was as immaculate as was his wont. Show More Sentences These knots are arranged at close, regular intervals to prevent the interlining from slipping out of place. This elegant little odorous globe would not be out of place even upon the toilette of a queen. A ploughboy's epigram would not have seemed more out of place. Slow, Delsarte movements are entirely out of place at this time. The only thing out of place in the discussion is dogmatism on either side. Even in that case an earmarked subsidy would be out of place. Only the Act III bridal scene, with the marriage bed set in the middle of a rough-hewn northern tundra, seems out of place. It transpired that he had twisted a tendon out of place, and could never have gotten well without attention. But the Slobs weren't the only ones who would have felt out of place yesterday as man-of-many-faces Harry Enfield got hitched. Close by, and seeming much out of place, was a carpenter's bench with the usual implements and a number of boards of various thicknesses. As soon as he was out of place, he had again been virulent in opposition. It is not out of place to theorize as to the facts already mentioned. He was distinctly out of place in such a gathering, for upon him was no ear-mark of the working class. All asperity and tyrannous rudeness is held to be out of place. Animals seem never out of place, even in the most paradisiacal spheres. This rag business is out of place, taken in connection with Heath. But open the hatch, fold down the rear seat backs and you have a cavernous space that would not be out of place in a small van. The witness, a local dad walking his son to school, told cops the man, who was wearing a trapper-style hat and black pilot jacket, looked out of place. Sharks' is lyrically and tunefully wonky while 'Cops' wouldn't sound out of place as a little extra light on 'Suburbs', a classic record by Arcade Fire. I'm a frontiersman from the extreme edge of the Knowable, and I feel quite out of place when I leave my study and come into touch with all you great, rough, hulking creatures. Show More Sentences Hitherto the various strata of rock had exhibited a gentle elevation toward the southwest, but here everything appeared to have been subverted, and thrown out of place. A glance at the young girls, perhaps, convinced him that the graces of elegant worldly conversation were out of place with the revelation he read on their faces. I began to feel unmistakably out of place in that pleasant family circle. Hope, fear, and the like are out of place because they imply a fall from the intactness or indivisibility of character that self-reliance requires and instantiates. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of out of place? Words that rhyme with out of place Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words out of order out of nowhere out of kilter out of harm's way out of hand out-of-focus out of pocket out-of-pocket out-of-print out of question out of reach out of respect