1.   Politicians drew strangely shaped boundaries, in order to give themselves an advantage in the next election.

2.   We pass some strangely shaped mountains that must have been volcanic plugs poking up through vast panoramas.

3.   But in the wreckage of desolate blocks it is still possible to find strangely shaped pieces of glass that melted together in the inferno.

4.   But the trial has now produced a ruling upholding those strangely shaped districts, suggesting that the voting law may still be very much alive.

5.   He wonders whether a strangely shaped room in his latest building will make people sick.

6.   The Turkish-speaking herders who live in the damp dwellings dug into the steep, strangely shaped cones of porous volcanic rock do not talk much about politics.

7.   They had never seen anything quite like it, long and black and with a strangely shaped box in the back.