Example sentences for: intrigued

How can you use “intrigued” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In any case, a constructive discussion about the pitfalls to be avoided and the benefits to be gained through a transition to open-access publishing would be a worthy first step for any scientific society to take—and PLoS welcomes the questions, comments, and feedback of those who are intrigued by the potential that open access affords and want to learn more.

  • She admits she's intrigued by the flexibility of Internet polls and the potential for sharing visual materials with respondents online.

  • About a dozen years ago, when looking through a mail-order catalogue of sports clothes, I noticed a section offering fishing flies and became intrigued with their names—names like Cree Sedge and Greenwell's Glory . In a desultory way (I admit), I tried to discover more about the names, with an eye toward compiling a work on the subject.

  • Monica Lewinsky's video deposition intrigued the Senate over the weekend, but it seems not to have changed any votes, in part because Lewinsky has said it all before, but in part because she phrases her testimony in ways that protect President Clinton.

  • Professor Bernard, who teaches at Springfield College, became intrigued with the lyrics to the Christmas song, The Twelve Days of Christmas , when he first noticed the virtual redundancy of partridge and perdrix , the Latin word for the bird, leading him to surmise that the words in a pear tree could well have been Norman French for `en a perdrix,' or words to that effect.


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