Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "curiously"

Lexicographically close words:
curiositie; curiosities; curiosity; curious; curiousest; curis; curl; curled; curlers; curlew
  1. There are twigs of that great world-tree of Norse Belief still curiously traceable.

  2. His History, with its rough earnestness, is curiously enlivened with this.

  3. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of The Hague, fabricated by an experienced timmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's claws.

  4. And curiously enough he found himself wondering how much he was influenced by that inducement in accepting the odds against him in cleaning up the place, and dusting the cobwebs of crime from its corners.

  5. And curiously enough, hard-headed, callous as he was, O'Brien was convinced someone was to pay the penalty.

  6. But if White Point lacked interest from human associations its setting at least was curiously arresting.

  7. He was intent upon his work now--curiously intent.

  8. Again Charlie looked at him curiously before he replied.

  9. Curiously enough, his leisure extended to practically the same limits.

  10. Then in a curiously reflective way she repeated the word, "Monday.

  11. Now, curiously enough, it took a second place in his thoughts.

  12. The ground is curiously laid out so as to represent, as much as possible, the ground in the environs of Jerusalem.

  13. This Campanile is curiously inlaid and incrusted on its outside with red, white and black marble.

  14. He scans the basket curiously as he passes us.

  15. But his appointment always seemed to me, even before I knew that he had acted against Wilde, curiously characteristic of English life and of the casual, contemptuous way Englishmen of the governing class regard letters.

  16. Curiously enough Bacon had the same insight, and I have often wondered since whether Oscar's worldly wisdom was original or was borrowed from the great Elizabethan climber.

  17. I think Clarke's challenge to Gill was curiously ill-advised.

  18. Curiously enough on the very day when I was thinking of running down to Cowes to hire one, a gentleman at lunch mentioned that he had one in the Thames.

  19. I was so occupied with talking and telling about myself that I knew very little about him, curiously little when I come to think of it.

  20. In this as in love of courtesies and dislike of coarse words he was curiously feminine.

  21. When I first met him his letters, and even his talk sometimes, were curiously youthful and immature, lacking altogether the personal note of his drawings.

  22. Curiously enough, Oscar was as yielding and amiable in character as the boy was self-willed, reckless, obstinate and imperious.

  23. He looked curiously at Luke through the window.

  24. Curiously it was the very oak tree under which Peter's little hoard was concealed.

  25. Stephen Ray waited curiously to hear what the man would say.

  26. He came frequently and always had extraordinary things to say against Couillard--things which, curiously enough, tallied with the remarks about my valet contained in a large number of the anonymous letters I received.

  27. Feeling curiously weak, utterly exhausted, he stopped at the plaza corner and gazed at a cantina across the road.

  28. Just then Gordon overtook them, but while helping them to saddle up--for it was his day on guard--Sliver curiously watched Jake.

  29. She sat down on a large rock, picked up a curiously twisted shell, and seeing a plover wading in the surf, gave a soft, low whistle, which made the bird turn round and gaze at her with startled distrust.

  30. Clara glanced curiously at the valise and laughed; then suddenly she grew serious again, put her hand into her pocket and seemed to be searching eagerly for something.

  31. They were utterly routed, and most of the leading Northumbrians as well as eighteen priests were slain--thus curiously repeating the experience of the earlier battle of Carham.

  32. And then their talk began; and he was still more curiously moved, and more and more puzzled.

  33. To ponder too curiously the question why a State declines is like pondering too curiously the question why a man dies.

  34. From Dudley Castle the views are more curiously contrasted than in almost any other part of England.

  35. Curiously enough Lord Haldane was hounded from the Government on the paradoxical ground that he knew too much about the enemy against whom we are fighting.

  36. Then there was a curiously heavy sob, and a half-turn of the musician's figure.

  37. In the centre, for my special benefit, was an object which held an awful fascination for me; a curiously carved block of wood, dull brown in colour, and on two sides much stained and worn.

  38. After a few minutes' inspection they began to march me through the forest in a westerly direction, all the time talking a lingo that seemed curiously familiar.

  39. Curiously enough, my hut-keeper was also of our caste.

  40. Yet the poetical evidence for it is curiously scanty throughout these centuries.

  41. His rich voluptuous strain has more of the poet than the free-liver, and his general tone is curiously modern.

  42. For a moment Bonbright felt curiously calm, curiously cold, curiously detached from the scene.

  43. In that tense moment the boy was curiously aware how perfectly his father's physical presence stood for and expressed his theory of being.

  44. But if this conception of the Group-Soul was not new, the suggestion Lady Statham developed out of it was both new and startling--and yet always so curiously familiar.

  45. And Henriot next realised that these Magnitudes in which this group-energy sought to clothe itself as visible form, were curiously familiar.

  46. He turned to go back to bed, curiously trembling.

  47. In Henriot himself imagination had grown curiously heated, fed by what had been suggested rather than actually said.

  48. For as she talked the spirit of old Egypt moved up, staring down upon him out of eyes lidded so curiously level.

  49. Cease your lying voice for ever," he said, in a curiously still, even tone.

  50. And they were curiously familiar, even as the person of this woman who now evoked them was familiar.

  51. Smith, despite the commonness of the name, may almost certainly be identified with James Smith, a poet whose few verses sometimes strike a curiously modern note.

  52. It ended in wonder; for Brodrick was the only person who could have informed her, and he had grown curiously reticent on the subject of Jane Holland.

  53. Nina faced her with the eyes that had grown so curiously quiet.

  54. Laura, who had once laughed at it, was growing curiously sensitive to the idea.

  55. And Jane Holland looked at them curiously with her tired eyes; and Tanqueray looked at her.

  56. In the social life of these places, where rough hospitality is often curiously mingled with a strain of former luxury, incidents of a humorous character will sometimes attract the notice of the visitor.

  57. The sentinel on duty curiously eyed their uniforms, and refused to admit them.

  58. These roadside crosses are to be met with everywhere in the French Canadian settlements, many of them curiously fitted up as shrines, and decorated with votive offerings.

  59. Brant had seen European civilization, and was the friend and companion of English statesmen; and he curiously grafted that civilization upon the Six Nations' manners and customs when he returned to his strong-hold on the Grand River.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.