In a sentence
Six example sentences with curiosity, each labelled with its topic.
Pure curiosity funded the experiment, and nobody expected the result to end up inside every phone battery today.
Science
The biography traces a childhood curiosity about tide pools into forty years of writing about shellfish.
Literature
Curiosity kept her walking one more block, and the doorway she found there became her best-known picture.
Photography
Curiosity spikes when people know a little about a topic but not enough, which is why a half-heard rumor is impossible to drop.
Psychology
Aristotle opened the Metaphysics with curiosity itself, claiming that all people by nature desire to know.
Philosophy
Pure curiosity sent her down the unmarked alley, and it ended at a courtyard bakery no guidebook had mentioned.
Travel
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