How to Use curiously in a Sentence

curiously

adverb
  • Off to the right, curiously cropped, is a bench with a footrest.
    Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The news of Lenchantin’s exit from the group came via a curiously dry statement from the group.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Why, then, should the whole enterprise feel so curiously thin and cold to the touch?
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
  • My son looked at me curiously and asked me what that meant.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Diana fought the urge to grab her purse while watching the big cats curiously paw through her bag.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
    Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2022
  • The killer whale curiously gets up close and personal with the baby, peering through the glass to study her.
    Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Everyone except Lib and Will seems curiously numb to the slow death of a child.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • On the ground, the No. 1 topic of discussion was the curiously low-wattage lineup.
    Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But this was true, curiously enough, even during the long years of McCarthy’s prime.
    John Wray, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
  • Bening, though, finds a way to make even the struggle to breathe curiously funny.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Five tongues of flame descend and touch her face, looking curiously like the tentacles of a squid.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • These games are almost all in Early Access, and every last one is curiously cheap—$5 seems to be the price cap.
    Aaron Zimmerman, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2022
  • But Palou was curiously less sure about his home next season.
    Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And, curiously, the one category of guest that feels scarce on At Your Service is pop stars.
    Vulture, 13 July 2023
  • In the video, Matilda could be seen curiously gazing down at her satin pink pumps while wearing a frilly pink bodysuit.
    Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
  • And curiously, Brooks and Wohlforth seem to have determined that the answer is limited to states.
    Joshua Shifrinson, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2023
  • By the end of the program’s run, ratings had plummeted and Oz had curiously pivoted from health to true crime.
    Karen Heller, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
  • Somewhat curiously, Kiffin tagged the Pac-12 in the post, despite directing his ire at the schools who are no longer part of the conference.
    Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The school’s Thornton Symphony gave the premiere in 2020 (a fact curiously left out of the Bowl program notes, for those who took the trouble to hunt them down on their cellphones).
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Mexico’s three candidate cities have, curiously, never changed from the first list in 2017 to the last.
    New York Times, 16 June 2022
  • For some reason the COs never seem to comment on the curiously lumpy figures that emerge in time for cell inspection.
    Keri Blakinger, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2022
  • Your spouse, also newly awake and confused, gets up and stumbles slowly, curiously, from the bedroom to the hall.
    Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2022
  • No Way Home or Black Widow) seem curiously afraid to embrace.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 June 2022
  • The heavy parts feel labored over, and the comic business, which was always the saving grace of the GotG misadventures, feels curiously forced.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
  • On Walnut’s second drive, the Eagles curiously decided to go for it on fourth down from their own 22.
    James Weber, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Selling from an account that is brand new or curiously free of reviews.
    Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The teams split their regular-season meetings in ACC play, and curiously neither had any suspense at the end.
    Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2022
  • And while this was a pop-up shop, curiously, there was not an intense pressure or expectation to shop.
    André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Mila smiles widely for the camera while Cora looks up curiously with her big, blue eyes.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2022

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