How to Use especial in a Sentence

especial

adjective

• This is a matter of especial importance.
• Mr Pinker draws especial comfort from the decline of faith.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• The afterlives of militarism are rendered with especial power, in the show, by the painter Ali Eyal, who was nine years old when the Iraq War began in 2003.
  — Eli Jelly-Schapiro, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2020
• There’s an especial succulence to the date: Chick-Fil-A, the company’s main rival, is closed on Sundays.
  — Natasha Frost, Quartzy, 3 Nov. 2019
• The Giants have been paying attention to the former Blue Jays starter all off season and took especial notice last week, when Sanchez hit 98 mph in a bullpen session.
  — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2021
• The fact that Burgoyne stayed here on his trip back to London makes this house of especial historical interest.
  — Laura Euler For Dirt.com, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2021
• For those familiar with the greater Boston area, the book is an especial treat, as many of her examples include familiar landmarks.
  — Michael P. H. Stanley, National Review, 20 Mar. 2021
• One of Wallace’s neighbors takes especial pride in having the biggest and most prominently displayed American flag on their street.
  — Michael Washburn, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
• Perseguido por mafiosos rusos y el FBI, un antiguo miembro de una fuerza especial de élite debe armar el rompecabezas de su memoria perdida.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• And the event has a growing following in China, where prestigious awards tend to command especial reverence, and where the local entertainment market continues to boom.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
• Conservatives, confronting the conundrum of woke capitalism, have had especial reason to consider this adage of late.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 1 May 2021
• But they were pursued with especial vigor: the Fifth Republic, under Debré, became an even more technocratic and administrative one than France had had before—which is saying something.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• The phrase emphasizes the importance of communication between different nations, which carries especial significance for Beijing this year as it is engaged in an ongoing trade war with the US.
  — Jane Li, Quartz, 30 Dec. 2019
• Yet, to my especial surprise, many of these downtrodden damsels weren’t crusading millennial activists fresh from campus indoctrination camps but women in their sixties from my own generation.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The show had especial significance to the American military community.
  — David W. Blight, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
• En este especial familiar de San Valentín, puedes usar prendas rojas o decorar tu bicicleta.
  — Silvana Pagliuca, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024