Throngs will strut and dance down Fifth Avenue in the curious rite of spring known as the St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Pina pushed the revolver into her pocket and then washed her dry hands, in some curious rite of abnegation.

The virgins perform the most curious rites requiring far more dexterity than the earlier phallic Maypole rituals from which it seems to be derived.

Machen's story "The White People" includes strange references to curious unknown rites and beings, an idea Lovecraft uses frequently in the mythos.

Primitive men must have feared that it would never return, so curious rites, mainly involving sacrifices, were invented to lure it back, and since they invariably worked, they became fixed,in religious practices.

With her much-vaunted PhD in social anthropology, Tett looks at financiers as if at a strange Tajikistan tribe with curious rites and beliefs.

This looks like the last of some curious pre-Christian religious rite which has survived.

This curious rite has been accepted by the news media and, apparently, by the electorate.

The vetting of the new boyfriend is a curious rite of passage.

And after a time which the master deemed sufficient, we performed the curious rites of incantation that would recall Ybith from his alienage.