curiously
adverb
cu·ri·ous·ly
| \ ˈkyu̇r-ē-əs-lē
, ˈkyər-\
, ˈkyər-\
Definition of curiously
1
: in a curious manner
seemed curiously calm
2
: as is curious
curiously, he continues to win reelection
Examples of curiously in a Sentence
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Disney also dropped a poster for The Rise of Skywalker, which curiously features Palpatine staring straight at you as Rey and Kylo Ren duel in the foreground. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, "Disney releases new footage from The Rise of Skywalker," 26 Aug. 2019 Two tourists from Maine curiously approached the alleyway. — Lauren Fox, BostonGlobe.com, "‘More saints there than in paradise’: There’s a hidden shrine in a North End alleyway," 22 Aug. 2019 Kate Knibbs | The Ringer | August 6, 2019 | 22 minutes (5,745 words) Overdose-prevention spaces save lives, but are curiously excluded from the American approach to addiction recovery. — Longreads, "The Top 5 Longreads of the Week," 7 Aug. 2019 For me, there was a curiously about what made the film so beloved. — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, "Four Weddings and a Funeral," 7 Aug. 2019 Stranger still, despite this extreme excess of gamma rays overall, a narrow bandwidth of frequencies is curiously absent. — Quanta Magazine, "The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined," 27 Aug. 2019 By far, though, the best voice of the night belongs to Mooney, of Dan + Shay (the one band that, curiously, refused to allow press photography). — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, "Florida Georgia Line, Dan + Shay lead a young country charge into sold-out Blossom Music Center," 24 Aug. 2019 In Lithuania, where thousands of Jews were murdered by locals, the museum at the Ponar killing site near Vilnius features, curiously, a display about the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who worked in Kaunas and saved mostly Polish Jews. — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, "In Eastern Europe, Holocaust museums are missing from key historical sites," 30 July 2019 The primary, curiously, is decided by taking opinion polls of voters. — The Economist, "Tsai Ing-wen’s prospects for re-election have improved," 25 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'curiously.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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