INTERESTING in a Sentence

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This phenomenon, sometimes called wanderlust, may explain why people spend so much time and money on trips to interesting places.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTERESTING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
interesting
 a.  exciting and holding the attention
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It would be interesting to know who was the father of Emmie Slattery's baby, but Scarlett knew she would never learn the truth of the matter if she waited to hear it from her mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  "Ah-ah-hum," said Gerald, suddenly and guiltily aware that the conversation, a most interesting and entirely proper one to him, would seem quite otherwise to Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  All of the interesting young men were gone-- the four Tarletons, the two Calverts, the Fontaines, the Munroes and everyone from Jonesboro, Fayetteville and Lovejoy who was young and attractive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Even if the commissary troop had been more interesting, it would not have helped her situation any.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  Atlanta was more interesting than Savannah or Charleston or Tara and it offered so many strange war-time occupations she had little time to think or mope.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  This was familiar ground and far more interesting than military operations.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  Surely someone will turn up to accept your interesting proposition.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  "Oh, yes, I do in a way," he said removing the straw and surveying it as if it were highly interesting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
9  You were a good risk, my dear, an interesting risk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
10  But as you and Frank have made a little money, I know you'll never be driven to me again with any interesting propositions of loans and collaterals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
11  But now the hint of this weakness had become the most interesting thing about her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
12  The first part of her companion's discourse had started an interesting train of thought, which was rudely interrupted by the mention of Mr. Rosedale's name.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
13  I hear she is interesting herself now in that silly Silverton boy, who has had his head turned by Carry Fisher, and has been gambling so dreadfully.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
14  Now that she was on a level with them, the point of view was less interesting.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
15  Self-pity because he did not divine that this was a surprise party rendered her sad and interesting to herself, and she had the pleasure of the martyrs in saying bravely to him, "It's nothing special."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting.
17  I had a lot of interesting experiences during my year in Africa.
18  It was interesting to be in a different environment.
19  Experience is not interesting till it begins to repeat itself, in fact, till it does that,it hardly is experience.
20  This phenomenon, sometimes called wanderlust, may explain why people spend so much time and money on trips to interesting places.
21  My eye fell upon an interesting advertisement in the newspaper.
22  The idea sounded interesting and I decided to follow it up.
23  Our guide gave us some interesting titbits about the history of the castle.
24  It's an interesting idea but there are many practical difficulties.
25  Your interesting report raises several important queries.
26  He passed on any interesting snippets of information he could glean from his colleagues.
27  Another interesting note was the predominance of London club players.
28  There are interesting hikes inland, but most ramblers stick to the clifftops.
29  I heard an interesting snippet on the radio this morning.
30  It's an interesting job.