The word "piqued" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to refer to something being aroused or stimulated with curiosity or interest. For example, "The thought of traveling to a new city piqued my curiosity."
Starting with his first apprentice pieces in the late 1830s, he had been testing and tweaking the rules of established art practice in a way that frequently piqued his critics and still gives his admirers much to ponder today.
Styles, meanwhile, was in Hollywood to attend Harvey Weinstein's pre-Oscars party and has supposedly piqued the interests of casting directors.
Whether because they were piqued or just because they could, Hungary hit back five times, inflicting a 10-1 defeathatat remains the heaviest in World Cup history.
These thoughts represent the ideas that piqued my interest while curating talks and exhibits based on the thought experiment of a future African city-superpower.
Even his occasional successes (The Trip, to pick a recent example) feel like the fortuitous by-products of a career spent restlessly pursuing whatever tale or technique last piqued his interest.
It's a story that has piqued the interest of the Troughtons.
This month at the Cartagena Dialogue, a conference in that city organised by Colombia's government and the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a London-based think-tank, several Asian officials urged the Alliance to admit their countries as full members.Two things have piqued the interest of outsiders.
Having these additional tools is not critical, but if investors are antsy about the Fed's ability to safely exit from its current stance without generating inflation, having additional tools might help allay those concerns.Have I piqued your interest?
Piqued by Mr Saakashvili's lack of reverence, many started to oppose his rule.
It can hold 160 books, and you get 6,800 page turns from the battery life enough to read "War and Peace" five times over, should you be so inclined.Gulliver's interest is piqued because business travellers would appear to be an obvious customer group.
But what is Islamic finance, and why has it piqued the interest of non-Muslim countries and companies?Broadly, Islamic financial products comply with the system of Muslim laws and norms known as sharia.
