How to Use curiously in a Sentence

curiously

adverb

• The host eagerly seated us, as the kitchen staff curiously looked on.
  — David Culver, CNN, 20 Feb. 2020
• All statistics count from the games except for in the championship game, which is curiously scrubbed from the history books.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
• Pumpkin toadlets are somewhat larger than their cousins, the flea-toads, but curiously, pumpkin toadlets lack some anatomical features that are present in other frogs and toads.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• Almost every primitive culture has a story about how man came to harness fire, and many of these stories involve—curiously—petty theft.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2020
• Capital is the lifeblood of business, but money is curiously rarely mentioned in this movie or in any of the aforementioned women-in-business comedies.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 22 Jan. 2020
• Mazursky’s movie ended with a lovely all-embracing coda, in which the leading characters drifted hopefully and curiously through a crowd of strangers.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
• Everything would be closed except for grocery stores, pharmacies, and, curiously, tobacco shops.
  — Eric J. Lyman, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2020
• Sony will focus its AI on three domains, Kitano says: gaming, sensors, and, more curiously, culinary arts.
  — Will Knight, Wired, 13 Feb. 2020
• Having an Instagrammable medicine cabinet stocked with gorgeous little French bottles (and, curiously, no medicine at all) is thrilling.
  — Cotton Codinha, Allure, 21 Feb. 2020
• 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
• The cut has curiously never made it to the throne, at least not yet.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
• 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 clerk looked at her curiously, and then pushed the pad forward kindly.
  — Te-Ping Chen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2020
• At times, the notes take on a curiously plaintive tone.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
• 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
• More curiously, the health care sector added 224 jobs, Fried said.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2021
• Staff stared curiously through face visors and glass doors at the empty street.
  — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
• Sony has been curiously silent about the PlayStation 5 in terms of what kind of games to expect or even what the console itself will look like.
  — Brittany Vincent, CNN Underscored, 11 June 2020
• Most curiously, the outsole has a tail that extends beyond the heel.
  — Elizabeth Carey, Outside Online, 18 Mar. 2020
• 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
• 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
• But curiously enough, the Allroad is part of a trend—albeit one with niche appeal.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 3 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024