Elgar wrote that the opening bars of the slow movement would "open some vast bronze doors into something strangely unfamiliar".
She described the wording on the bullfight certificate, for instance, as strangely unfamiliar.
He forced a smile and laughed for James' benefit, but the sound was strangely unfamiliar, coming from high in his throat.
Soon there was war, and Denuan, strangely unfamiliar in his uniform, left us.
I knew there was something strangely unfamiliar about you.
And now it came to my steadying brain that there was something puzzling, peculiar, strangely unfamiliar about this light.
In my condition, his wrinkled black face and short white beard looked strangely unfamiliar, as if I'd just bumped into him in a Palanthas market.
Alexander writes that Americans are ashamed of their racial history, and therefore avoid talking about race, or even class, so the terms used in her book will seem strangely unfamiliar to many.
The somber dark eyes would have told Sulu who he was even if the Russian accent hadn't, but the rest of this younger Chekov's face seemed strangely unfamiliar.
The interior spaces of the Sons Contend With Bloody Fangs were strangely unfamiliar to him.