Sentence examples for curious money from inspiring English sources

Under Charles XII (1697 1718) there was highly curious money of necessity (i.e., a coinage struck to fulfill a need, usually in time of war and siege, but with inadequate technical means available).

But the decision not to do this sort of excavation back in 1979, when the floor was new, makes one curious if money might have conceivably been a consideration, even if only a couple of thousand dollars were at stake.

John Harvey Kellogg turned it into the famous Battle Creek Sanatarium, a curious but money-spinning mix of health spa, holiday camp and experimental hospital.

Curious about the money raised and spent?

Turan joined for €34m (£24.4m) and was presented on Friday, complete with the club's new kit, on which the blue and crimson lines are hooped rather than the traditional vertical, and a curious 14-day money back guarantee.

It is another reversal of policy and a repudiation of the government's own pledge to combat age discrimination... Somebody there has the curious idea that money a worker saved in what is called an Alternatively Secured Pension is a way of avoiding tax.

The idea of selling cars through a flash sales model is definitely compelling; though I'm curious how much money Gilt and the auto maker pockets from the sales.

As in, "Isn't that curious how much money that fringe candidate Ron Paul raised?" The answer you'll get in private from folks in the media is, "But you know he's not going to win!" No, you know that.

The expansion of airline alliances has led to some curious, and potentially money-saving anomalies.

"I don't know why he is not more curious about where the money is coming from," Mr. Lazio said on the program.

Grey took a ten-per-cent commission on the deals: deals that he'd made with his own production company, using ABC's money — a curious arrangement.