How to Use curio in a Sentence

curio

noun

• She loves to browse the shops in small towns, looking for curios.
• The bouquet sits in a shop that makes copies of old curios.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• All that white bobbing up and down in the water makes any species of duck curios.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 6 Jan. 2020
• The camp is filled with curios from the golden age of exploration.
  — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2018
• Open shelving built into the wall serves as both a curio case and room divider.
  — Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2023
• On the main floor, most rooms feature a few curio cabinets.
  — Jacob Gedetsis, kansascity, 14 July 2017
• Designed by Los Angeles artists, the pewter curios sell for $20 each on the website hingeheads.com.
  — Susan Christian Goulding, Orange County Register, 13 Jan. 2017
• The film remains a curio in the franchise, a film that perhaps undeservingly has the taint of a flop.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
• Our stockings hang in their new holiday home on a curio shelf.
  — Al Kemp, The Seattle Times, 12 Dec. 2018
• Across the square, the 14th-century Cloth Hall now hosts a market selling Polish crafts and curios.
  — Malavika Bhattacharya, National Geographic, 23 July 2019
• The 9,000-square-foot building that houses the East Bay’s largest collection of oddball curios has been sold.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2018
• The Prada ball is a curio to people more fluent in sport than Italian fashion.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2021
• But the laptop in its current state is more curio than computer.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2022
• Seldom seen in New York since its Broadway debut in 1943, the show now plays as a beguiling curio.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 June 2018
• The curio cabinet that the gun was taken from was only slightly ajar.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• Their photos cover the front page of a newspaper that has been Scotch-taped to the glass door of a curio cabinet in her entry hall.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
• Colorful lounge chairs face a soaring shelf wall filled with eclectic curios, art and books.
  — Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2020
• But alongside high-end paintings and portraits are smaller curios and oddities, which means quite a few themes run through the show.
  — Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• And Witold, who leads the peripatetic life of a travelling artist, must serve as a local trinket, a curio, for the global flow of commerce.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• Floating shelves are great for storing glassware, dishes, and curio, Blazek says.
  — Jennifer Tzeses, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2021
• When The Sturiale Place debuts in May on a part-time basis, the retail part of the business will boast a profusion of unique gifts and vintage collectibles and curios.
  — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 14 Apr. 2017
• But the potent combination of two gifted lead actors and a director who’s among the world’s best will make this a must-see curio for many.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2023
• Gold astronaut hands and a full-size Sputnik model are just some of the curios being auctioned off on July 20.
  — National Geographic, 16 July 2016
• Small dressers or chests can be night stands, and curio cabinets can make handsome bars or vanities.
  — Helen Carefoot, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2022
• The cozy space is filled with curios, a Buddhist shrine, a lending library, a rack of local postcards, board games and layers of notices about local events.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2018
• Franklin said, pointing to a wood curio cabinet against a sliver of wall that divides the wide hallway from the living and dining spaces.
  — Andrea Siegel, baltimoresun.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• Royal Dutch Shell’s corporate moniker can be traced to a modest London curio shop.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• After what feels like an interminable wait, the battery EV may soon finally cross over from curio to the big time as a slew of new models arrive in 2020.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2019
• The Bulldog just might be the biggest curio in Aston Martin history.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 June 2023
• The shape not only beautifully hugs the curve of the wrist but also looks cool, opening up the view of the 3D composition like a modern curio cabinet on the wrist.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024