Example Sentences

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The retro versions may read like curios now, but tucked inside is a very modern impulse: making something generous out of what you have.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025

"They are just very charismatic, very playful, very social, very curios and very intelligent and that's why people love them," she said.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024

The 65-room property aims to channel a 1970s-era writer’s retreat with crackling fireplaces, sofas upholstered in ikat patterns, massive Murano chandeliers and shelves laden with books and curios.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2022

Lisa See began researching her landmark 1995 book “On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family” in the back room of F. Suie One, a curios and antiques store in Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2022

Flames burn low in the gilded fireplace, the tall bookcases stuffed with curios and relics loom in shadow.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern