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How to use the word intriguing in a Sentence?

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It was an exciting time within astronomy when ‘Oumuamua was first discovered, and it just became more and more intriguing since the more we learned about it, the harder it became to explain its behavior, as an astrochemist, my own scientific interest in ‘Oumuamua developed as models started emerging to explain its acceleration, which implied pretty unusual chemical properties of the object.

Jennifer Bergner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The idea of something that was built in the 14th or 15th century was just really intriguing.

Doug Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This new, large study adds to this overall picture, but it only drew on data from people with White, British or Irish ancestry, more research is needed to build on its intriguing findings, and uncover whether these reported benefits also translate to minority communities, where historically dementia has often been misunderstood and highly stigmatised, and where awareness of how people can reduce their risk is low.

Susan Mitchell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Any attempt to normalize what was a violent attack on the United States Capitol only makes it more intriguing for people to do such a thing in the future.

Mitt Romney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most intriguing feature of our footprint is a long portion preserved at the back of the foot, which is an impression of what we call the metapodium, the presence of this might suggest our large meat-eater was squatting down in the mud, before standing up and walking away. It’s fun to think this dinosaur might well have been strolling along a muddy coastal plain one lazy Sunday afternoon in the Jurassic.

Dean Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Gutmann, when you came to me before the [Obama] administration was up and asked me whether I [would] consider to be a professor at Penn, the first thought I had was that it sounded like an intriguing idea, but it became even more intriguing after the outcome of the [2016] election when you said I could bring along with me some serious, serious people, serious staff people and much more than staff and they start with Tony Blinken and Steve Ricchetti and others, so thank you for allowing me to bring along some really, really bright people.

Hunter Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

To me the most intriguing advance( of the study) is that it is a very different type of treatment than has been traditionally used for alcohol addiction, therefore, it may open new avenues for significant progress with this devastating condition.

David Hellerstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That was always intriguing for me as a researcher, because normally the name of the game is to find the flaws and fix them, now we're finding' flaws' that the client seems to like, and want to keep.

Harry Brignull

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bryson has always been an innovator. Having the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of something unique has always been intriguing to him, professional golf as we know it is changing and it’s happening quickly.

Brett Falkoff

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think Neptune is itself very intriguing to many of us because we still know so little about it, this all points towards a more complicated picture of Neptune's atmosphere and how it changes with time.

Michael Roman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Speaking of poison, unlike processed food, which is bad to consume, art should be the polar opposite: it should be over-processed to the point of being dangerous. To be deemed subversive, and intriguing to the eye and intellect, it must induce some form and degree of disruption. In that perspective, art is always safe, despite of idiotic censorship, as long as you don't eat it.”

Adamo Macri

added by anonymous
2 years ago

The style was intriguing, but also, I was just really drawn to the organization’s mission and what they were trying to accomplish by supporting our veterans. It felt like the perfect way for me to serve again. I reached out because I have done my own little pinup photos for my husband in these cool outfits and thought, ‘I could do this.'.

Jana Tobias

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It will be an intriguing task to try to figure out how it might have formed, which is a mystery at the moment.

Markus Janson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's too soon to say if there was a causal connection or not, but what we can say is that this event did happen around the same time as when we think the megafauna disappeared, which is intriguing, there's also a chance that this was actually witnessed by early inhabitants, who had just arrived in The Atacama Desert. It would have been quite a show.

Pete Schultz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One of the most intriguing results of the last two decades of exoplanet science is that, thus far, none of the new planetary systems we've discovered look anything like our own solar system, this new planet we've discovered is still weird -- but it's one step closer to being somewhat like our neighborhood planets.

Jennifer Burt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The young age of this deposit absolutely raises the possibility that there could still be volcanic activity on Mars, and it is intriguing that recent Marsquakes detected by the InSight mission are sourced from Cerberus Fossae.

David Horvath

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We were very interested in how we could do something truly different in the love and relationship space, the notion of this 90-day ticking clock for a major, life-changing decision was intriguing to us. While many of the shows in this genre at the time were produced in a manufactured setting, we were drawn to the real-life roller coaster journeys of these couples and their impending deadlines.

Alon Orstein

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Let's say you get someone to download your app. You literally have one or two or three seconds in which to have something that's intriguing to them, or they bounce.

Evan Burfield

Found on CNN
3 years ago

He has helped put the tight end position on the map, one thing that’s very intriguing about Travis Kelce, and I never really seen this with any other player in the NFL before, is that Kelce gets better every single year.

Rob Gronkowski

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

By examining the sticker and the overprint, it is clear that the sticker was applied after the front was printed and before the serial number and seal were applied, the placement of the sticker is intriguing -- if it were placed in most areas of Del Monte note it would not be possible to prove that it was applied between the second and third stage. This suggests a deliberate placement.

Leonard Augsburger

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The tombs with non-Egyptian burial customs were especially intriguing typically males buried with bronze weaponry in constructed tombs, without scarabs or other protective amulets like Egyptians would have been buried with, the most elite had equids of some sort (potentially donkeys) buried outside the tombs, often in pairs as though ready to pull a chariot. This is both a foreign characteristic of burial style, but also suggestive of someone [with] very high status.

Chris Stantis

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

A lot of primate species... also have the differences of being A, being B, being AB, whether it's a great ape or a new world monkey, it's quite intriguing that the differences have been found or maintained in so many different species.

Laure Segurel

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The main feature and top advantage of social media, which has made it such a powerful instrument in the hands of PR experts, is the ability to share - and especially the intriguing possibility of seeing your post go viral. In that case, your post is so catchy and contagiuos that it spreads like an epidemic and can consequently become a pandemic.

Maxim Behar

added by MaximBehar
3 years ago

Kristen can be many things, and she can be very mysterious and very fragile an ultimately very strong as well, which is what we need, the combination of those elements made me think of her. The way she responded to the script and how she is approaching the character, it's very beautiful to see. I think she's going to do something stunning and intriguing at the same time. She is this force of nature.

Prince Charles

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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