"curious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The film's production is replete with curious anecdotes.
- Thomlinson does not hesitate to criticize his subjects, and reports scandals together with curious and humorous anecdotes, including what is certainly one of the earliest limericks.
- At times "A Social History of Madness" risks becoming a string of curious anecdotes, for Mr. Porter makes his points in a gentle, even evasive way.
- Burns's sister relates a curious anecdote connected with Alison.
- A curious anecdote involving the Murphy drip is related by Walter Lord in his book on the Battle of Midway.
- For a curious anecdote about the Darlington newspapers of 1954, one must read the history of Mundaring by Ken Spillman.
- Following the development of the economy and the standard of living after independence, the night soil system in Singapore is now merely a curious anecdote from the time of colonial rule when new systems developed.
- According to a curious anecdote, in 1618 he went to Paris to request grace, after he killed his treacherous wife and her lover.
- In this same passage of Augustine's Confessions is a curious anecdote which bears on the history of reading:
- A curious anecdote has come down to us of John Burns, a great English labor leader and one time member of the British Cabinet.
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