Sentence examples for a certain curious from inspiring English sources

After sitting on the shelf for years, the book one day made it into the kids' room, having been plucked from the stacks by a certain curious child of mine.

Why not do it?" Doing impressions has long occupied a certain curious niche in comedy, and its masters include Rich Little, David Frye, Vaughn Meader, Jim Carrey, Dana Carvey, Danny Gans and Darrell Hammond.

"The tendency is to play it over the top -- too large, folkloric and in a certain curious way, to dehumanize it," he explained in a telephone interview from his home in Arizona.

Even manky drunk, he had a certain odd decorum about him, and a curious vulnerability that reminded me of Bert Lahr, the lion in The Wizard of Oz.

These skyscrapers, in Moscow and Warsaw, were an expression of ruthless dominance, but had certain curious differences.

You enter feeling fairly sure of geographic bearings and leave less certain, curious, challenged.

It has also been suggested that certain curious objects may have been accurately made optical squares with which surveyors might offset right angles.

The prose is instantly recognisable, even if its characteristics include a certain plainness, a curious flatness of register, a crisp precision and curt simplicity: Wilder stepped through the doors into the lobby, looking for somewhere to throw away his cartons of pet food.

"Kids at a certain age are curious and not moralistic," he said.

For a certain kind of culturally curious young local or transplant, Max Fish was a comfortable place to blow off steam for a few nights or a few years; you could call it the ultimate hipster bar, if only that didn't sound like an insult.

While the majority eat only plants, a certain group has evolved curious, clever ways to eat other unwitting insects.