Sentence examples for curious definition from inspiring English sources

With that recognition came a curious definition for the border of the Emirate: "a semi-circle [5], 40 miles in radius, with the town of Kuwait at its center".

The party's new leader, William Hague, duly tried to prove his credentials as a modern chap by wearing a baseball cap — a curious definition of modernity, admittedly, but let that stand as evidence of how passé the Tories circa 1997 seemed — and by attending the Notting Hill Carnival, a big event for black Londoners.

They endorse the pursuit of freedom, obviously in the extreme, though with a curious definition: I can do as I please, and you will do nothing that displeases me.

They are firm neither in principle nor in self-definition, curious and tolerant and heuristically malleable but lacking a clear identity that allows them to take decisive action at all.

The elusive nature of the world's most famous brand, not to say the curious road to its definition, will be illuminated next week as never before when the Library of Congress unveils an addition to its permanent collection nicknamed "America's baptismal document".

Again, these definitions are curious.

The bill does include some curious elements, beginning with its definition of an "emerging business" as one with annual revenue of up to $1 billion or has no more than $700 million in publicly held stock.

"It is curious that you repeatedly reference dictionary definitions of 'integrity' in an apparent attempt to play off the Center's name and imply hypocrisy," he wrote.

I was curious to see the opera in High Definition, the Saturday matinee video broadcast beamed live from the Met to small-town theatres across the country.

But with America's largely puritanical views on sex, and especially sex that ventures outside traditionally accepted definitions, what I'm most curious about is: Why this story?

Alongside the more curious "innovations" was the usual barrage of high-definition screens, feature-packed smartphones and hybrid "phablets", with matching marketing superlatives.