Sentence examples for curious origin from inspiring English sources

After the war, the southern writer John Esten Cooke, who had served on J.E.B. Stuart's staff, explained its popularity among Confederate soldiers and how the Army of Northern Virginia came to be called "Lee's Miserables": The name had a somewhat curious origin.

Five more genetic loci were of curious origin.

The Southern media group has curious origins for a muckraking paper that regularly irritates the authorities.

But while the book, and the divisive thinking behind it, took off in conservative circles, few stopped to look at the curious origins or ironies behind its publication.

While the symmetry of this is appealing — potato salad for everybody — it seems based on a basic misreading of this mini-phenomenon: that, essentially, the money itself is some kind of ill-gotten gain, an accidental and undeserved windfall that is tainted by its curious origins, and so should simply be given away.

For George's seventy-fifth anniversary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt pushed the Curious George origin story.

In order to give a contribution to this curious inflammatory origin of lung tumour, we studied two known neutrophilic inflammatory proteins, namely LTB-4 and IL-8, in the airways and blood of patients affected by lung cancer.

Do you notice grammar gaffes, wonder about the speech styles of celebrities, find yourself curious about the origin of new words and constructions?

Just as coffee drinkers have invested in sophisticated equipment, become curious about the origin of the beans and the method of grinding and serving, so tea drinkers are getting interested in the rich Eastern culture and artisan craft.

Curious about the origin of this little cluster of random likes, which he just happened to see roll in one after another, he noticed that the accounts in question all looked… pretty fake.

You don't need to be a rabbi to be curious about the origin of such a striking yet seemingly random and even bizarre visual emblem.