Sentence examples for a curious model from inspiring English sources

On display at IDEO is a curious model: a toy truck with plastic pieces on springs that pop out of the bed of the truck when a button is pressed.

In a curious model of hand-me-down housing, the biggest of the pack forces its way into the empty shell, while the others form a frenzied conga line from largest to smallest, waiting to scramble into the cast-off from the one in front.

This presents a curious model, as exon 6 is included in both male and female spliceforms.

In November 1660 the diarist John Evelyn saw it in Charles II's cabinet of curiosities, together with portrait miniatures, precious stones and "a curious Ship model": it was a present fit for a king, presented to the new and restored monarch on his coronation by a group of Amsterdam merchants.

The Dallas Morning News reports on Dick Armey's self-described "curious model" -- heading conservative free-market group Freedom Works while simultaneously pulling in six-figure paychecks as a Washington lobbyist.

Only during a strange afternoon session in which a rattling start of 40 runs in 6 overs was followed by 24 overs in which only a further 47 were scored (a curious sort of model for the clogged-unclogged traffic flow through the Mt Victoria tunnel right by the ground) did they manage to keep the lid on things.

We present a generic system architecture involving a cryptographic protocol based on a homomorphic encryption scheme for aggregating sensing data into maps, and demonstrate security in the Honest-But-Curious model both for the users and the cloud service providers.

In this paper, we adopt the "honest-but-curious" model which assumes that each player honestly follows the designated protocols and procedures while it intends to disclose the other's private information.

But in candidates like him and others across the state, national Democratic officials believe they have found a model, with a curious signature feature: Democrats in no rush to remind certain audiences that they are Democrats.

And the model has a curious and fascinating logic behind it - make tenants happy, and the cash will come rolling in.

This, to me, is a far more fascinating manifestation of time and, in a curious way, a more fitting model for how, quite literally, time is design.