curio

How To Use curio In A Sentence

• They were now surrounded on all sides by a ring of excited, curious faces.
• A lot of us are curious to know exactly what the navy has been told to do.
• On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia. ANC Daily News Briefing
• Although I was already a fan of both authors, it was this curious title overlap that led me to snatch these two off the New Releases table at my local bookstore. Romi Lassally: My Literary Indiscretions
• Curiously, for a politician who made much of the fact that what happened in the rest of the world was not always Washington's concern, diplomacy has been the keynote of his first months in office.
• Seeing her eyes unwavering, he was curious to know what had brought such a change in her attitude.
• The pageant promises to be a curious mixture of the ancient and modern.
• Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie.
• It was the most curious sensation to know she was about to die, and not care.
• Some came to seek the new power, some to chuckle, others to satisfy their curiosity.