INTEREST in a Sentence

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For INTEREST, below is one of 420 sentences:
Her brother glanced at her face with greater interest than usual, and, encircling her waist with his arm, drew her coaxingly to him.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTEREST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
interest
 v.  excite the attention of something
 n.  the state of wanting to know or learn about something
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As the weeks went by, my interest in him and my curiosity as to his aims in life, gradually deepened and increased.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
3  Soon there were five buckets of frothing creamy milk at which many of the animals looked with considerable interest.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  Napoleon took no interest in Snowball's committees.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
5  I have really a very great interest in poor Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
6  Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7  If I have acquired an interest in hearing of your instructive experiences, and can scarcely hear enough of them, I claim no merit for that, since I believe it is a general sentiment.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
8  Bounderby, this is a case for rigid training, and I shall observe it with interest.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
9  Here Tom came lounging in, and stared at the two with a coolness not particularly savouring of interest in anything but himself, and not much of that at present.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
10  With a large allowance for difference of tastes, and with all submission to the patricians of Coketown, this seemed so extraordinary a source of interest to take so much trouble about, that it perplexed him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
11  Her brother glanced at her face with greater interest than usual, and, encircling her waist with his arm, drew her coaxingly to him.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
12  The old woman was so decent and contented, and made so light of her infirmities, though they had increased upon her since her former interview with Stephen, that they both took an interest in her.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
13  Her colour brightened, and she turned to him with a look of interest.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
14  Confiding in you at all, on the faith of the interest you profess for him, I will not do so by halves.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
15  I remember that Miss Gradgrind takes no interest in the game.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  His report titillated the interest of the audience.
17  It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.
18  The bank strongly resisted cutting interest rates.
19  Don't let this interest of yours become an obsession.
20  The exhibitors at the trade fair passed out free samples to stimulate interest.
21  The trip was cancelled through lack of interest.
22  He looked indifferently upon subjects that did not interest him.
23  Various interest groups have expressed their opposition to the policy.
24  Her visit caused no more than a ripple of interest.
25  Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her.
26  The West is bleeding poorer countries dry through interest payments on their debts.
27  One writer in whom I had taken an interest was Immanuel Velikovsky.
28  His interest in the project declined after his wife died.
29  Matt's behavior was arousing the interest of the neighbors.
30  I sincerely feel a grateful interest in each return of this happy anniversary.