Words similar to curry
Example sentences for: curry
How can you use “curry” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
She was removed because her 17-year-old son was arrested selling drugs outside the apartment, Curry said.
Environmentalists believe that New York Gov. George Pataki endorsed the shift in stance to curry favor with other Republican governors in hopes of a GOP vice presidential nod.
Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.
In fact, I even feel like a wimp for having to try to curry sympathy for death-row prisoners by pointing out the procedural irregularities in their cases; I oppose executing them even when they are monsters in human form, because, while I can easily understand why someone would want to kill the murderer of their near and dear, I can't at all understand why someone would want to give the state the power to kill them--even if it's not being abused in that exact case, it's going to be, and probably sooner rather than later, as the much-publicized racial statistics of the death penalty's application demonstrate.
This is a useful way to distract the reader's attention from gaps in logic and evidence, just as curry and spices were once used to make bad meat palatable.
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