How to Use curiously in a Sentence

curiously

adverb
  • For me, there was a curiously about what made the film so beloved.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Off to the right, curiously cropped, is a bench with a footrest.
    — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The cut has curiously never made it to the throne, at least not yet.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Nixon had promised to do something about it but curiously hadn’t.
    — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The video, though, curiously didn't follow the path of the ball.
    — Andrew Joseph, USA TODAY, 30 May 2017
  • Diana fought the urge to grab her purse while watching the big cats curiously paw through her bag.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The clerk looked at her curiously, and then pushed the pad forward kindly.
    — Te-Ping Chen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Why, then, should the whole enterprise feel so curiously thin and cold to the touch?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
  • But Palou was curiously less sure about his home next season.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Staff stared curiously through face visors and glass doors at the empty street.
    — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
  • This year, though, the brand is curiously not giving away milk and cookies.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2018
  • And without that sense of risk, much of the evening feels curiously weightless.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
  • This proved to be a curiously hard question to answer.
    — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • We were both taken by the idea of leadership at a curiously young age.
    — Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Yet curiously, the Green Book itself doesn’t play much of a role in the film.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 7 Jan. 2019
  • Bening, though, finds a way to make even the struggle to breathe curiously funny.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The caribou stopped eating and curiously stared at him.
    — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The spa, curiously or not, is next door to a primate-research center.
    — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • But, curiously, the show doesn’t try to shift Charli all the way into the present.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 May 2025
  • Chefs are eye-to-eye with customers, who curiously watch fish being sliced and sizzled.
    — Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Most curiously, the outsole has a tail that extends beyond the heel.
    — Elizabeth Carey, Outside Online, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The ability to get a hit of curiously frothy cream along with a taste of cold brew is refreshing.
    — Anne Vandermey, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The host eagerly seated us, as the kitchen staff curiously looked on.
    — David Culver, CNN, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Only the older men eat with us as women serve and teens peek curiously from just outside the doors.
    — Rick Steves, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Plenty, although curiously, many of the best songs are toward the end.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 22 Dec. 2024
  • This parade of famous voices is a curiously trite start for a film driven by facts and stats for the most part.
    — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 16 Apr. 2024
  • All hail the flour tortilla and the curiously viscous queso dip.
    — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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

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