Sentence examples for curious use from inspiring English sources

A curious use of the money, say some, given the party's avowed determination to trim the deficit (though the Tories also want efficiency savings to pay for part-reversing a planned rise in national-insurance contributions).

John Lloyd Davies's production makes curious use of the broad OHP stage, constantly cramping it between di Luna's Mussolini-era Fascist forces and Manrico's rebels, with handy chinks to facilitate dramatic entrances and furtive exits.

But Leon Edel, James's biographer, believes them to be loaded with significance: The reference to his "clumsy pen" and the curious use of the word "divorced" suggests that some troubled feelings had been stirred in Henry.

The government could scrap the registration scheme for Poles and the like, while keeping it for the newcomers.The registration scheme may produce misleading figures, and it is a curious use of official time and energy at a moment when bureaucrats are too busy to deport foreign rapists.

A one-and-a-half-pound boiled whole lobster was sweet and moist, as was a broiled swordfish steak and a piece of broiled sole wrapped around a buttery, crab-and-cracker stuffing; the curious use of Ritz crackers is a traditional New England conceit.

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These curious uses turn "no" into a kind of contranym: a word that can function as its own opposite.

With her background in ballet and yoga, she says, "I was always curious to use my body for teasing and dance".

The work of neuroscientist Oliver Sacks has previously inspired theatre pieces by Harold Pinter, Peter Brook and Michael Nyman, and now new young company Curious Directive use The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat as the basis for a show that finds physical poetry in the brain, its marvels and curious quirks.

Birds are naturally curious and use their beaks to explore and will chew on anything they can reach.

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