Definition of intriguing
: engaging the interest to a marked degree : fascinating an intriguing story
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Examples of intriguing in a Sentence
Some had once contained medicines, sarsaparilla, or elixirs; others had intriguing names embossed into their glass panels: Balm of One Thousand Flowers, Indian Cholagogue, Dr. Kilmer's Kidney Cure, and Ocean Weed Heart Remedy. —Kim Wong Keltner, The Dim Sum of All Things, 2004
The Huns are intriguing not only because of their notoriously hawkish history, but also because of their place as middlemen between Mongol and Turkic ethnicity. —Victor L. Mote, Siberia, 1998
The next two phases of the Cambrian … mark the strangest, most important, and most intriguing of all episodes in the fossil record of animals—the short interval known as the Cambrian explosion … —Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, July/August 1998
The folklorist Jan Brunvand has documented hundreds of “urban legends,” intriguing stories that everyone swears happened to a friend of a friend … and that circulate for years in nearly identical form in city after city, but that can never be documented as real events. —Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, 1994
The offer is very intriguing.
an intriguing concept that should engender much debate among climatologists
Recent Examples of intriguing from the Web
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More intriguing, just 54 percent of the MCI patients had amyloid build-up, putting them at higher risk for later Alzheimer’s.
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But, with the release of a new poster this week, fans on Reddit have come up with some intriguing theories about what the monster will be.
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What is more, the debate over debt, as framed, misses the most intriguing thing about their balance-sheets.
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The departure of Griffin, who helped build Cleveland squads that made three straight trips to the Finals, including the franchise's first championship, was swiftly followed by reports of an intriguing possible replacement: Chauncey Billups.
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Gavin Bizeau, Plainfield: The 6-10 Bizeau is an intriguing prospect who can shoot it for a player with his size.
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Now, being 17 myself, the condescending conclusion that teenagers don’t read this kind of intriguing, nuanced journalism stings on its own.
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Her talent is less about extracting information from intriguing people and more attuned to leading the audience to a sense of vague unease about her subjects.
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An unlikely pair of Canadians approached him with an intriguing investment idea: a casino in Vietnam.
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Origin and Etymology of intriguing
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: extremely interesting
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