intriguing
adjective
in·trigu·ing
in-ˈtrē-giŋ 
: engaging the interest to a marked degree : fascinating
an intriguing story
Examples of intriguing in a Sentence
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.
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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
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
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And, as alluded to at the start, mid-season numbers are ultimately meaningless, except that, in this instance, they are both entrenched and intriguing.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Del Pino won’t need to handle a major workload in the backcourt, but his potential is intriguing as a 6-5 point guard with good court vision and experience playing high-level European competition as a teenager.
—Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2025
Even for an amateur baker like myself, some of the most intriguing recipes fall in the dessert chapter—because who wouldn’t want chewy tahini blondies or a coffee and cream icebox cake to end the meal?
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 May 2025
The smells, on the other hand, were intriguing—solvents, 3D printers, some other rapid prototyping, or maybe all of it all at once.
—ArsTechnica, 2 May 2025
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George Caulkin, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Del Pino won’t need to handle a major workload in the backcourt, but his potential is intriguing as a 6-5 point guard with good court vision and experience playing high-level European competition as a teenager.
—Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 2 May 2025
Even for an amateur baker like myself, some of the most intriguing recipes fall in the dessert chapter—because who wouldn’t want chewy tahini blondies or a coffee and cream icebox cake to end the meal?
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 May 2025
The smells, on the other hand, were intriguing—solvents, 3D printers, some other rapid prototyping, or maybe all of it all at once.
—ArsTechnica, 2 May 2025
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“Intriguing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intriguing. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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