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intrigue
used in Summer Pleasures

19 uses
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1  —18 uses as in:
she was intrigued
Definition
cause to be interested, curious, or fascinated
  • Her eyes held secrets, and there was little that intrigued him more.
    1.3 — Part 1 Chapter 3 (43% in)
intrigued = fascinated (or interested)
  • She has a talent for digging up obscure facts, some of them impossibly dry, and turning them into intriguing stories.
    1.1 — Part 1 Chapter 1 (34% in)
  • If it hadn't been for that inner tension, he might have dismissed her, but what lay beneath people's surfaces always intrigued him.
    1.1 — Part 1 Chapter 1 (73% in)
  • She had a quality about her...an innate frankness glossed with sophistication...that he found intriguing enough to hold his interest.
    1.2 — Part 1 Chapter 2 (17% in)
  • I've always been intrigued by pockets," Hunter went on.
    1.2 — Part 1 Chapter 2 (36% in)
  • It was this look, she realized, the secret amusement the onlooker could only guess at rather than see, that most intrigued.
    1.2 — Part 1 Chapter 2 (49% in)
  • It made, Lee discovered, a very intriguing and uncomfortable combination.
    1.3 — Part 1 Chapter 3 (18% in)
  • No. My profession is words...putting words together so that someone who reads them is entertained, intrigued and satisfied with a tale.
    1.3 — Part 1 Chapter 3 (31% in)
  • "I made a choice," Hunter corrected, intrigued by the orderly logic of her mind.
    1.3 — Part 1 Chapter 3 (65% in)
  • He wouldn't tell her...yet...that his research on Lenore Radcliffe had led him to some intriguing conclusions.
    1.5 — Part 1 Chapter 5 (28% in)
  • When I find someone intriguing enough.
    1.6 — Part 1 Chapter 6 (34% in)
  • Whether she knew it or not, she relaxed then, writing in the journal, which intrigued him, or going over her daily notes for the article, which didn't.
    1.7 — Part 1 Chapter 7 (22% in)
  • He writes about the dark side because it's the most intriguing.
    1.10 — Part 1 Chapter 10 (86% in)
  • When he'd been approached byLife-style to do a pictorial study of America, he'd been intrigued.
    2.1 — Part 2 Chapter 1 (21% in)
  • Shade Colby, as mysterious and intriguing as his name, as dangerous and as compelling as his photographs.
    2.2 — Part 2 Chapter 2 (55% in)
  • Intrigued, Bryan leaned closer to the sheep.
    2.3 — Part 2 Chapter 3 (61% in)
  • Intrigued and wary, she watched him set his camera.
    2.10 — Part 2 Chapter 10 (87% in)
  • Intrigued, she wandered around in back of the midway to where the carnival workers parked their trailers.
    2.11 — Part 2 Chapter 11 (60% in)

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  • But it intrigues me that you'd consider it possible to renege on something unspoken.
    1.9 — Part 1 Chapter 9 (54% in)

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