Those faraway places with strange-sounding names.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

HOLMES: Now this is a little strange-sounding to some people.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2009] Reference

Good question, and it's a strange-sounding name, come to that.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: POEME EN LANGUE INCONNUE.] Reference

Startled, Denniston asked what the strange-sounding name was supposed to mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horn : Green]

The two of them read, occasion­ally whispering strange-sounding words aloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons Of Summer Flame]

She swept her arm, and spoke a strange-sounding name, as if that told everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bull From The Sea]

Travel to faraway places with strange-sounding names was not a new experience for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [One From The Hart] Reference

A group of us went to test out this strange-sounding food item and came back disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meme from the Two Worlds] Reference

His hands were clammy as he held the phone to his ear and listened to the strange-sounding ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Extreme Measures] Reference

Lock everybody up -- not just the ones with a strange-sounding name or an odd way of speaking, but everyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Horowitz: Cheney's Reign of Error] Reference

I'm not sure I could remember all of it, but one word, surely, even if such a strange-sounding word-is it Scottish?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

The people of the house thought it a strange-sounding voice and, wondering who it was, went to the entrance hall to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends] Reference

It is not made any easier by all those strange-sounding keywords that can be used when defining classes and class members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding C# Class and Member Modifiers] Reference

Well, we are going to end the mystery for you right here: How to Twitter, and what strange-sounding terms like R-O-F-L actually mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2009] Reference

You see, being that Pre-IE speakers didn't have pharyngeals in their language, the sequence -bʕ- just sounded like a strange-sounding "p".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

Cotta alone wore the purple-bordered toga praetexta of the curule magistrate, and it was to him that all the strange-sounding, unintelligible harangues were directed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

Howard was perfectly able to come up with imaginary names when he wanted to: the Kull stories that Lovecraft so much admired feature strange-sounding empires such as Zarfhaana.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

A strange-sounding illness leads to speculations and misinformation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Junkfood Science] Reference

People with strange-sounding names -- the Marcomanni, Varistae, Hermanduri.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

And while she stood there she was singing to herself a strange-sounding song.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles] Reference

'Elfride, you must not mind my saying a strange-sounding thing, for say it I shall.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

Gardein had fewer strange-sounding ingredients like whose names I couldn't pronounce.    From Wordnik.com.  [green LA girl] Reference

Portuguese is indeed a strange-sounding language if you've not heard much of it before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rachel Lucas] Reference

He spake but little, and that in his own tongue, very harsh and strange-sounding to my ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

They were conversing with each other in a strange-sounding dialect, which I supposed to be Gallegan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

Not a question about what this strange-sounding statement might have meant to first-century hearers.    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference

And as he also notes, "the attention span for strange-sounding surnames and distant lands is enchantingly short.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Catholic Online > Daily Readings] Reference

We shouldn't be making fun of Barack Obama because he has (compared to recent political candidates) a strange-sounding name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet RMFO Blog] Reference

The Kaffirs swore in strange-sounding tones, and Denis flew here and there, poking one, lashing another, hauling at the head of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand] Reference

Geras makes the strange-sounding statement that, for Luxemburg, "it is not socialism but barbarism that is inevitable" (p. 31).    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarkismo.net] Reference

It was late and the more this strange-sounding character talked, the less inclined I felt toward having anything to do with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll] Reference

“Mine eyes” wasn’t as strange-sounding 150 years ago, I suspect, as it is now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Hisself, My Son, and a Thought About Prescriptivism:] Reference

‘Elfride, you must not mind my saying a strange-sounding thing, for say it I shall.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

These are just a few of the strange-sounding subjects featured in June’s Spotlight: Weird Science.    From Wordnik.com.  [New June Spotlights | BrainPOP Educators] Reference

Her voice was strange-sounding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prentice Alvin]

A strange-sounding controversy in Scotland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

She voiced a strange-sounding little chuckle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wizard and Glass]