Sentence examples for collecting curious from inspiring English sources
He was, and remained, a "Manchester man" who never wanted to be anywhere else except, perhaps, beachcombing near his Anglesey cottage and collecting curious objects to add to his office clutter.
Frannie, the heroine of Jane Campion's "In the Cut," is a writer and teacher who collects curious scraps of language: pungent specimens of slang, wayward metaphors, provocative jargon.
There is archaeological evidence that human beings collected curious shells and stones 40,000 years ago, long before the Hummel Corporation even existed.
They also knew that the larvae collect in curious clumps on bushes and blades of grass.
So for the entire brutal Canadian winter the enormous $10 million plane sat on the tarmac at Goose Bay, collecting ice and curious onlookers and awaiting the outcome of yet another appeal.
Shin likes to imagine that four hundred years from now shards of his work might be unearthed and collected by some curious traveller, just as he likes to unearth and collect fragments of work painted by his predecessors.
The author of "Bulb" and "The Tulip" has collected in THE CURIOUS GARDENER (Bloomsbury, $35) selections from 20-odd years' worth of essays published in the British newspaper The Independent.
Ms. Walker is a charmer when she's not singing, too, bringing a breezy conversational style to the anecdotes she and Mr. Bartlett have collected about the curious and varied careers of the women she's paying tribute to.
He gives her a curious look, then continues collecting clothes off the armchair and floor.
That's the problem with collecting the recent work of a provocateur: It lands in a curious time warp, addressing cultural moments even as they slip away.
According to historian Alistair Horne, the minister was a teetotaler, icily cold and humourless. How curious to find such qualities in those in charge of collecting a nations revenues.
