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
  • 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
  • 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 | McOlurso@al.com, 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
  • 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
  • In this show two areas of special interest are evident: one is a passion for red and orange glazes, which are used on nearly a third of the pots here.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • Dunn has donated a majority of its funds, lending it the air of a special interest group of one.
    Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2024
  • And General Johnson, at the time Colonel Johnson, took a special interest in us within that group.
    Renarda Williams, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Of special interest were the comments of the father of the Canadian tennis star going into the final.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Foreign governments and the private sector, meanwhile, lobby Congress to protect policies that favor them, inhibiting changes that may serve the broad public interest but challenge special interests.
    Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024

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