Sentence examples for curious contest from inspiring English sources

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol facing off against The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was always going to be a curious contest.

Discussing them and the curiouser and curiouser GOP contest, Eliot Spitzer and Mary Matalin reach consensus on what Romney needs to do to salvage his wounded candidacy but then clash over whether Gingrich was a racial demagogue in South Carolina or just a conservative populist.

But in the curious sort of "beauty contest" that took place here last week in the primary, the Republican challenger, state Senator Dan McDonald, got a bit of rude news.

After all, Huyn's Windows Phone development chops are well-established by now: He's perhaps best known for whipping up an equally handsome Wikipedia app that won Microsoft's curious Next Big App contest a few months back.

But he's also curious about supposedly safe contests like one around Collinsville.

If it is in that spirit the great thinkers of the effete salons of Manhattan have devised this contest, we would be curious how it would play in The Times's etiquette column.

This year's Republican primary contests ended with the curious obsession of the distant runner-up, the Texas senator Ted Cruz, with transgender people's access to public bathrooms.

The contest has thus evolved into a curious clash of two visions for the party.

About eight years ago, I was curious about what happened to the Saint Mary's Math Contest and asked Hugo Rossi, who was deputy director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.

For Russia's social conservatives, Saturday night's Eurovision song contest looked like a double victory of a curious sort.

Today, Monro is probably best known for a curious little dialogue-poem, Overheard On a Saltmarsh, an inconclusive contest between a nymph and a goblin who covets her green glass beads.