Sentence examples for curious object from inspiring English sources

Inside was a curious object: a fat ceramic cat with what appeared to be a cranial tumor.

On the mantel of a quiet suburban home here stands a curious object resembling a small set of organ pipes nestled into a neat, white case.

Early in my time at the Observatory I had come across the use of spider threads as telescope "wires", the need to collect spiders or their webs from nearby bushes, and a curious object in the museum's collections that might be for collecting or storing spider silk.

The curious object, called 1996 PW, was detected last year by an automated search telescope in Hawaii.

This would explain its ubiquity in contexts that we might find surprising: in the exhibition at the British Museum, for instance, there is a curious object known as a 'tintinnabulum', or wind chime, consisting of a winged phallus (with lion feet, as well as its own phallus and phallus tail), from which five bells have been suspended.

A colleague once said that "the most curious object in the [Ripley] collection is probably Mr. Ripley himself".

Everywhere, curious objects are clustered into vignettes, and each one has a story to tell.

Here at the Frick show, numerous lovely and curious objects invite close looking.

Images from "The Englishman Who Posted Himself anf Other Curious Objects" courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.

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Are the dots between the AIDS-related deaths of tens of thousands of young men and these curious objects too far apart to connect?