CURIOUS in a Sentence
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226 example sentences for CURIOUS, such as:
1. My eye fell on a curious object.
2. Isa felt antagonised, yet curious.
3. I am not curious to know your meaning.
4. But there was one curious circumstance.
5. I was curious to know what would happen next.
2. Isa felt antagonised, yet curious.
3. I am not curious to know your meaning.
4. But there was one curious circumstance.
5. I was curious to know what would happen next.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CURIOUS
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curious
a. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
a. having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Isa felt antagonised, yet curious.
2 But there was one curious circumstance.
3 Both Mr. Childers and Master Kidderminster walked in a curious manner; with their legs wider apart than the general run of men, and with a very knowing assumption of being stiff in the knees.
4 I am not curious to know your meaning.
5 A curious passive inattention had such possession of her, that the presence of her little sister in the room did not attract her notice for some time.
6 Credit me, it is better to enjoy the good which God sends thee, than to be impertinently curious how it comes.
7 Rowena wondered, hesitated, became curious, and ended by commanding the damsel to be admitted, and her attendants to withdraw.
8 Which is curious, but a phenomenon of our day.
9 And sex was merely an accident, or an adjunct, one of the curious obsolete, organic processes which persisted in its own clumsiness, but was not really necessary.
10 He had taken to writing stories; curious, very personal stories about people he had known.
11 He was a curious and very gentle lover, very gentle with the woman, trembling uncontrollably, and yet at the same time detached, aware, aware of every sound outside.
12 And as he felt the frenzy of her achieving her own orgasmic satisfaction from his hard, erect passivity, he had a curious sense of pride and satisfaction.
13 It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and fathomless spite.
14 The cronies had such a curious pomposity under their assumed modesty.
15 She was thinking of the curious impersonality of his desire for a son.
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 Children are curious about everything around them.
2 Everyone was curious as to why Mark was leaving.
3 His conduct that evening was to say the least curious.
4 I was curious to know what would happen next.
5 They speak neither French nor German, but a curious mixture of the two.
6 My eye fell on a curious object.
7 It is a curious paradox that professional comedians often have unhappy personal lives.
8 By a curious twist of fate, cricket was also my favourite sport.
9 Thus, these clever devices are curious stillbirths in our genealogy of automation.
10 Beneath the curious mixture is the kind of breathtaking skyscraper shell, balanced in space, that modern technology makes possible.
11 She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she could get away without being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance in the air.
12 By the way, I am curious, is there a reason why you chose the word “acquisition” instead of “conquest”?
13 The cat felt curious when she saw her own reflection in the mirror.
14 New Age dreamers, alternative lifestyle gurus and curious onlookers from around the world descended on the ruins of Maya cities to mark the close of the 13th bak'tun - a period of around 400 years - in the Maya Long Calendar.
15 A fawn behind the tree looked at us curiously.