How to Use special interest in a Sentence

special interest

noun

• What makes the place of special interest is a tiny shop just to the right of the front door.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
• People have got to stand up and take on the special interests.
  — Time Staff, Time, 29 June 2019
• The rest are filled by closed polls among special interest groups.
  — Time, 5 July 2019
• Half in Shenzhen and half in Hong Kong, the street has always been a place of special interest.
  — CNN, 17 June 2021
• There are two places of special interest in the retina.
  — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• The principal, Earl B. Thomas, took a special interest in me and gave me a part-time job on the weekend.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• This will be where all the special interest money pours in.
  — Amy Chance, sacbee, 11 June 2018
• Two of them have a special interest in something the other three do not.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2024
• Javar took a special interest in styling in high school and knew that a creative career was his life path.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 1 Apr. 2024
• With so much on the line, massive amounts of money from wealthy donors and special interest groups have flooded the state.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 30 Dec. 2020
• Sassen spent a year, on and off, photographing the palace and its archives, with a special interest in the palace’s women.
  — Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, 20 June 2019
• But there's a huge loophole for the super-rich and special interests.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• The game was of special interest to Braun, who competed head-to-head against Bueckers in high school.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
• There are spring break camps and special interest classes for youths and adults age 50 and older.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
• The woman rejected from the mine tour happened to be part of a special interest group.
  — Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 25 Sep. 2024
• That is the same handle used on Reddit by someone with a special interest in face paint.
  — Chris Quintana, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• Wu said to the crowd of politicos, special interest groups, and families.
  — Kate Selig, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2022
• For critics of the subsidy system, one item was of special interest.
  — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
• Children can use them to learn more about special interests, such as birding, Golinkoff said.
  — Anna North, Vox, 12 Sep. 2024
• Claire takes a special interest in Eric, agreeing to tutor him for the SAT, for free, outside school.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• Viewers in Alabama may have a special interest in the series, courtesy of a link to our state.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 13 Dec. 2020
• The rhetoric is weaponized to expand state power and advance special interests.
  — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
• The guides on the excursions usually take a special interest in kids and engage them during the tour.
  — Judy Koutsky, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 June 2019
• This from a spokesperson for one of the biggest special interest PACs in Texas politics.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 18 June 2018
• Mitchell’s opus was of special interest to me, and not just because its subject matter was a major part of my childhood.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• These rollbacks of the ESA are for one purpose only: more handouts to special interests that don’t want to play by the rules and only want to line their pockets.
  — Adam Aton, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2019
• Phoenix will be a city where the people—not special interests—are heard and represented.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024
• At school, Benjamin takes a special interest in Samuel and asks him to consider joining the debate team.
  — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 22 June 2021
• The trips — which were bankrolled by special interests — focused on big-picture policy ideas for the coming year.
  — Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2024
• Floridians know that wealthy donors and special interests already have too much influence over state politics.
  — Amy Keith and Celina Avalos Jaramillo, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025