Sentence examples for curious exercises from inspiring English sources

There are automated accounts that are designed purely as curious exercises, such as Pentametron, which scans Twitter for posts that happen to be written in iambic pentameter, and Stealth Mountain, which collects tweets that misspell the phrase "sneak peek" as "sneak peak".

Without the elite background of many applicants, Joey struggled to prepare for the Rhodes competition: pulling all-nighters in the library, visiting art museums, and completing the fellowship office's sometimes curious exercises.

The Spitzer investigation is a curious exercise.

In addition, choosing to enforce the law against instrument makers does seem a curious exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

Examples of "contrasting" words — those to apply to one's opponent — included "sick, pathetic, lie, liberal, they/them, unionized bureaucracy," all in all a curious exercise in vocabulary building.

It was a curious exercise for a coach with the biggest game of his life ahead, but it was impossible to ignore the 15 stalls that had been mostly empty in Green Bay this season.

Boxing, he agrees, is a curious exercise, drawing together two men in a fight when, really, there is no cause for it other than money and some kind of manufactured malice.

For the State Department to spend thousands of taxpayer dollars sending someone with those views on a "public diplomacy" trip to the Middle East is a curious exercise.

In a curious exercise that shines through and through, LaBeouf plays an analog of his own father, with gifted 13-year-old Noah Jupe ("A Quiet Place") portraying a LaBeouf avatar named Otis who stars on a "Stevens -type Stevens -type

There's a distinction worth noting here between designers like Mr. Simons sending their curious formalist exercises down the garden path and the expectation that consumers plan to follow them there.

Be curious, but exercise a healthy degree of suspicion.