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Example sentences for: piqued

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"" debate over Janet Malcolm's new book piqued my interest in reading it.
These microbes have piqued the interest of evolutionary biologists because they represent a wide spectrum of evolutionary strategies, ranging from obligate mutualism to reproductive parasitism (Buchner 1965; Ishikawa 2003) (Box 1; Table 1).
The rest of us will be piqued, shamed, outraged, instructed, and maybe perversely fortified.
But after flailing away in my living room for a few nights, my interest was piqued, and I decided to find out more about the real thing.
It is not Slate's function to tout Microsoft products, but AutoSummarize piqued our curiosity.