Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: curiosities
IPA transcription: [kj,ʊɹi'ɑsətiz]
Pronunciations of curiosities
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Usage examples
  • yet I cannot describe the curiosities to you.
  • "We shall probably find stone axes and other curiosities.
  • These things had been brought away from the cave as curiosities by one of the huntsmen.
  • They seem to have evaporated into smoke,--which may be a way which is common enough among Eastern curiosities, though it's queer to me.'
  • Only the day before, he had, by the merest accident, seen the advertisement for John Jago cut out of a newspaper and pasted into a book of "curiosities" kept by a friend.
  • Whereon Mr. Andrews, who seems to have been a very sensible old gentleman, tells him all about his curiosities: and then it comes out--if you will believe it--that Master William has been over the very same ground as Master Robert, who saw nothing at all.
  • As a true nephew of the Professor Liedenbrock, and in spite of my dismal prospects, I could not help observing with interest the mineralogical curiosities which lay about me as in a vast museum, and I constructed for myself a complete geological account of Iceland.
  • 'Suppose it took us somewhere foreign, and the purse was covered with strange Eastern devices, embroidered in rich silks, and full of money that wasn't money at all here, only foreign curiosities, then we couldn't spend it, and people would bother about where we got it, and we shouldn't know how on earth to get out of it at all.'
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Rice, Minnesota, License CC BY-SA 4.0