piqued

In a state of exhaustion, my curiosity piqued.

For over a decade, Superchief has established itself as a place where punk rockers, graffiti writers, street photographers, homegrown fine artists and anyone with a piqued interest in counterculture gather to celebrate art.

Sir Ben says that is what first piqued his interest, with the script being a final clincher.

"At the end of it all, it started to get a little scary, and then it piqued when Sarah Palin appeared on the show."

Wells, whose widely serialized attack-of-the-Martians story “War of the Worlds” piqued the Western imagination.