Sentence examples for curiously close from inspiring English sources

League tables are curiously close because home teams rarely lose.

In Soviet Russia, Ms. Boym observed, monuments had a curiously close relationship to the people.

"The French foreign minister is making noises that sound curiously close to a humanitarian invasion," Megan McArdle notes at Asymmetrical Information, her blog for The Atlantic.

ON THE PLATES The women shared sea scallops with sweet corn and chipotle ($29) and a single plate of French fries ($9), though a second plate of fries (supposedly the men's) was curiously close.

President Obama has not made a compelling case for the war and has set a deadline for the start of withdrawal that seems curiously close to the anticipated start of his 2012 campaign for a second term.

Trump and McCarthy share not only the kindred traits of demagogues bombast and the manipulation of public fear in the service of their own ends but a curiously close, almost familial resemblance.

A distinctly American experiment in generosity, EMHE feels curiously closer to Cinderella than to, say, Horatio Alger.

Curiously, its closest homologues studied, S. cerevisiae Hst2 [ 36] and human SIRT2 [ 32], are cytosolic.

Today the Iraqis may have made the process a little easier when Amir al-Saadi, who runs many of Iraq's weapons programs, said in Baghdad that the immense document proved Iraq had given up its arms programs and then, curiously, described how close the country had come to developing a nuclear weapon.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.

Curiously, the same close relationship has surfaced in previous studies [ 21, 33].