Sentence examples for curious figure from inspiring English sources
Momus cuts a curious figure nowadays.
Humphries has always been a curious figure.
Baskin is a curious figure in this story.
Mr. Sarris cut a curious figure at the congenitally contentious Village Voice of the early 1960s.
In retrospect, Murray was a curious figure to help found such an organization.
As the crowd got up to leave, I caught sight of a curious figure standing at the back.
Later he began to incorporate curious figures: ventriloquist dummies, dwarfs and ballerinas.
A clock from 16th-century Strasbourg, with curious figures and elaborate metalwork, still keeps good time.
"The New York literary world could use a few more curious figures," Mr. Wylie said moments later.
But sometimes a wax figure looks out of those glass eyes with unusual intensity, or there is enough of a resemblance to remind the fleshy onlookers of something more mysterious in these curious figures, something existing beyond the wax.
The hotel is also reputedly haunted by the ghost of a nightwatchman, Mark Hurston (or Hewton) and other curious figures.
