Piquing his interest were several black-and-white head shots.

Mr. Ray is more interested in unfolding a story for its own sake, in piquing the reader's curiosity and beckoning him on.

The juxtaposition of realism and surrealism is more jarring than it means to be, but the play is a piquing, if tangled, nest of ideas.

Then he'd note yet another subtle increase in the number of gray follicles populating his chin, and once again the dense bramble of hair would be shorn away until the next piquing of his curiosity.

While timber sports are growing, experts say, with more college teams cropping up across the nation in the last few years and exposure on ESPN piquing new fan interest, logging, once a backbone of the economy in this town of 1,050, has virtually disappeared as a dependable livelihood in the Pacific Northwest.

He works himself up into another small fit of pique.

I was working myself up to a little fit of pique.

A fit of pique because they held out too long.

Sure, it had been in a moment of pique, but still.

Sometimes it was out of pique, but she always returned the next morning.

But pique is not a good guide to making foreign policy.

Four years later, in a fit of pique, he gave it back.

He could have as easily done so in a fit of pique.

He was wrong about the weapon from the beginning and never got over his pique.

Was there just a hint of pique in her voice?

This was too good a thing to be distracted from by pique.

He tried not to smile at her display of pique.

Like just about every designer this season, she has a white pique group.

For a while Bill thought the computer had broken off contact with him out of pique.

Did he imagine the tone of pique in his voice?

Children were given the same family mark with additions, the pique.

There was more going on than pique at being chewed out for a bad call.

"I'm certain she'll return when she is over her pique."

"I was trying to make it easier for her," he said with some pique.

Pique has to be alert to cut out the threat.

There was a tone of pique in the mental voice.

But British officials have recently acknowledged that pique was the real reason.

Pique shook hands with people near his corner of the stage.

Finally, the woman spoke, a trace of pique in her voice.

So I committed myself pretty far, partly out of pique, do you see?

He turned to see what had piqued the President's interest.

They pique interest by not being more of the same old thing.

Whatever had piqued their interest the past week was gone.

I read the book only when it piques my interest.

We've got 10 great ideas sure to pique their interest.

And yet there was something about her that piqued his interest.

Also, I was very much piqued by her treatment of me.

She only meant to pique him, he said to himself.

But it was something else within her eyes that piqued my interest.

"But we saw enough to pique our interest, and it's not a very strong market."

It was the only offer he could've made that would've piqued her interest.

These little trips you've been making at night have really piqued my interest.

For some reason, this piqued my anger all over again.

A high school science course piqued his interest in chemistry.

She looked over at him, her curiosity piqued by the thought.

It was not until 1960 that library science piqued his interest.

And they wanted what had piqued their interest: silver dollars.

But that sort of thing would only pique his curiosity.

"This is something I've no doubt will pique your interest."

At the moment, just now, he was piqued and irritated.

He said the party was piqued because the mayor did not support their candidate.

This seemed to pique general curiosity, and quite a number of people began to run.

Still, the opportunity to go commercial has piqued at least the second generation's interest.

I had an inquiry that really piqued my interest, from a bank.