Sentence examples for curious ending from inspiring English sources

It was a curious ending to a game in which the Giants had shown little urgency or tempo when they still had a faint chance to win.

Still, the flourishes that open the third movement sounded like a fanfare for some stern czar of old, and the curious ending to the finale — a passage of grumbling, pungent chords thick with woodwinds and subdued brasses — sounded like a somber, soulful Russian Orthodox choir.

Thought at the time to be little more than an extension of her merchandising arm, Curious ended up being the top-selling fragrance of that year, netting more than $100 million.

He used facts to curious ends.

With the curious end of Gooch's heroic innings came, effectively, the end of England.

Johnson c Streak b Blignaut 24 (356-8) A curious end to Johnson's fun cameo appearance.

The Yankees' obfuscation of Jeter's presumably last rehabilitation hurdle seemed a curious end to a bizarre week for the ball club in the Bronx, usually a stanchion of stability and self-assurance.

And it's a curious end for a woman from a strict Methodist household who grew up without an indoor toilet – not because the family was poor, but because her father wouldn't countenance such luxuries.

It's this kind of response that can, in aggregate, have a negative impact on children: being mentally curious ends up as something deeply uncool and not relevant to modern life.

So, apparently, did Jarmusch, which is why Only Lovers Left Alive luxuriates in a curious end-of-an-era melancholy, as if he'd set out at once to make the last ever vampire movie and cinema's last ever love story.

It's a curious end to the company, if this is really the end.