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Lexicographically close words:
interea; interesse; interest; interested; interestedly; interestingly; interests; interet; interethnic; interets
  1. As for us, it merely interrupted a most interesting morning's ride.

  2. By far the most interesting day I spent on the Belgian front was not in the trenches but in a long, low, wooden building well to the rear.

  3. Another interesting figure who joined our little party in Gorizia was a monk who had served as a regimental chaplain since the beginning of the war.

  4. The smile with which she accompanied this remark, suggested that both Mr. Pendomer's correspondence and home life were at times of an interesting nature.

  5. Interesting things have happened at Matocton--many events that have been preserved in the local mythology, not always to the credit of the old Musgraves, and a few which have slipped into a modest niche in history.

  6. I am thinking it would be an interesting episode in one's Life and Letters.

  7. I fancy it made interesting reading, Rudolph.

  8. One of the most interesting narratives of voyaging that it has fallen to our lot to notice, and which must always occupy a distinguished space in the history of scientific navigation.

  9. Their sayings, their doings, their manners, their costume, will be found faithfully chronicled in this work, which also includes the most interesting of their letters.

  10. A more interesting work has not issued from the press for many years.

  11. We have also much most entertaining historical matter, and many very curious and interesting family traditions.

  12. Their adventures, though on a narrower scale, are perhaps more interesting than those that had subsequently taken place, and are valuable as illustrations of manners.

  13. We owe Pepys a debt of gratitude for the rare and curious information he has bequeathed to us in this most amusing and interesting work.

  14. This highly interesting volume is filled with details and anecdotes of the most startling character, and well deserves a place in the library of every regiment in the service.

  15. We cordially recommend these sketches as interesting in matter and brilliant in composition.

  16. These are volumes of an extremely interesting nature, emanating from the pen of a Russian, noble by birth, who has escaped beyond the reach of the Czar's power.

  17. And presently she had a funny, funny dream, which is much too long to go into this story, which is a great pity, for her dream is quite as interesting as the real story, although it is not half so true.

  18. It would be impossible in this short space to give a full account of this novel and interesting dinner party, but if any one supposes that there was a dull moment in it, he is altogether mistaken.

  19. Mr. Clyffurde told me that interesting fact before he had finished eating his soup.

  20. The news--if news there be--is too interesting to be kept waiting for me.

  21. Gordon's letters give an interesting account of his work, and bring out with his usual clearness all the points at issue; but it is unnecessary to follow very closely the events of the year he passed in the lower Danube region.

  22. The letters from the Crimea are specially interesting for the light they throw on General Gordon's character.

  23. In writing to his favourite sister in the summer of 1854, he gives the following interesting bit of biographical information: "You know I never was confirmed.

  24. A letter from Gordon gives an interesting account of the two subsequent affairs at Nanjao, where Admiral Protet was killed, and at Cholin, where the Taepings suffered a severe but, as it proved, not a decisive defeat.

  25. In completing this subject it may be appropriate to quote a few of the more important and interesting descriptions of his personal appearance, contributed by those who had opportunities of seeing him.

  26. I come now to the second and more interesting matter.

  27. He is especially interesting to us, because he was the father of General Gordon.

  28. General Gordon's letters contain two or three interesting descriptions that, in view of more recent events, deserve quotation.

  29. Well, marquise, I can assure you that that's a most interesting weapon.

  30. I guess if we don't have quite an interesting conversation over lunch it'll be the fault of our new passenger.

  31. Brightly written by the Military expert of the Westminster Gazette, and neatly illustrated by Mr. Caton Woodville; this is a most interesting and instructive volume.

  32. I reckon that would be quite an interesting little surprise-party, wouldn't it?

  33. An interesting description of the characteristics of the Boer.

  34. And how very interesting you young ladies of the New World are.

  35. Mrs. Culley witnessed Major White's superb defence of Ladybrand, of which feat she gives a very interesting account.

  36. A remarkable life-sketch, which is as interesting as it is curious.

  37. The result of an interesting and momentous conversation was that the Kaiser sent his aide with an autograph letter to Marlborough House requesting the honour of an interview with King Edward for himself and the President.

  38. Altogether, I think we shall make quite an interesting little party when we meet in la Ville Lumiere.

  39. It happened, however, that the following Saturday was devoted to something even more interesting than deer-hunting.

  40. Drawn together, perhaps, by the events of the afternoon and by the interesting secret they held in common, the members of Tent Three were gathered in a group on one side of the circle.

  41. To the great majority Mr. Curtis's proposition certainly didn't sound in the least interesting or alluring.

  42. Perhaps the most interesting of these were the long hikes and week-end camping-trips.

  43. You will like Mars--so many interesting things to see.

  44. The write-up will doubtless be interesting too.

  45. But, after a moment's consideration, he decided, that it would be far more interesting and comfortable to remain right where he was and listen to the reports which were being sent down from above.

  46. In this connection it is interesting to find evidence that the "dice game" of hazard was associated with the thought of war among tribes very different, both in language and customs, from the Pueblo Indians.

  47. It would lead too far afield to follow the interesting relation between ceremonials and games, a relation that is not peculiar to the culture found on the American Continent but which obtains the world around.

  48. That little boat was interesting in every way.

  49. It is interesting to hear what people will say about a man.

  50. I never have seen such a curious and interesting variety of wild animals in any garden before--except "Mabilie.

  51. A curious calculation may be interesting with regard to milk.

  52. It may be interesting also to observe that Mr. George Cadbury, in the Deed of Foundation of the Bourneville Trust, provides for the complete restriction of the traffic at the outset.

  53. Now, it is at this very point that a most interesting experiment at Topolobampo has broken down.

  54. The most interesting of the plants found here are Rhododendron Kamtschaticum, Pall.

  55. At the time of our last visit to this interesting region, about the middle of September, the weather was still fine, suggesting the Indian Summer of the Western States.

  56. Our stay on the one point of Wrangel Island that we touched was far too short to admit of making anything like as full a collection of the plants of so interesting a region as was desirable.

  57. What the universe was thought to be in Judea and other places, this may be very interesting to know; what it is in England here where we live and have our work to do, that is the interesting point.

  58. The face of man gives us fuller and more interesting information than his tongue; for his face is the compendium of all he will ever say, as it is the one record of all he has thought and endeavoured.

  59. Nothing at bottom is interesting to the majority of men but themselves.

  60. The life of the lowest mortal, if faithfully recorded, would be interesting to the highest.

  61. Man is ever the most interesting object to man, and perhaps should be the only one to interest him.

  62. We have, and this is an interesting fact, a plant which may serve as a symbol of the most advanced age, since, having passed the period of flowers and fruit, it still thrives cheerfully without further foundation.

  63. The most interesting thing in the school curriculum to Russell was “vacation,” and it was his habit to add to his vacation privileges whenever he could by playing hooky.

  64. It is among this interesting tribe of Indians that E.

  65. Catlin, however, was far more interesting from a historical standpoint than from any artistic conception he gave to his theme.

  66. These were most interesting and impressionable years.

  67. Out of respect to the Society for the Prevention, and so forth, Steve decided to give his interesting companion a drink; then he would have done with her forever.

  68. Yes, he is taller and has a most interesting face.

  69. Well, I suppose you were more interesting then than you are now," Nannie went on comfortingly.

  70. Popular in style, trustworthy, and comprehensive, and dealing with the most interesting characters and events in the story of the Christian Church.

  71. This latter picture presents an interesting scene of the day.

  72. We must not neglect now to look at the one picture by Tilborgh, A Dinner, particularly interesting on account of the personages represented.

  73. The collection has an interesting history as a whole; and the majority of the pictures have their own special history.

  74. Hondecoeter's best pictures have remained in Holland, and The Hague and Amsterdam galleries possess his most interesting canvases.

  75. An interesting mythological picture by Moreelse is called Vertumnus and Pomona.

  76. Pool's Interesting Portraits of his Wife and her Father.

  77. It is interesting to note how thickly the artist has spread the paint on the canvas.

  78. With regard to Jan Steen's interiors it is interesting to note that, like Ostade's, they are painted from an elevation, so that the figures in the background are not hidden by those in the foreground.

  79. A very interesting and valuable picture by him, representing the Town-hall on the Dam, completed in 1667, is in the present Town-hall.

  80. Emanuel de Witte's The Fish Market at Amsterdam is an interesting picture.

  81. His Savant in his Cabinet is an interesting interior.

  82. An interesting picture by Govert Camphuysen, who lived in the seventeenth century, called Wagon Full of Drunken Peasants before an Inn, shows a wagon drawn by a white and a brown horse standing before an inn.

  83. An interesting and curious work is Shells, by Balthasar van der Ast (?

  84. The episode had in short been one of the most interesting "experiences" of a tour almost chromo-lithographic in vivacity of impression; and they had always meant to go back to Brussels for the sake of reliving so picturesque a moment.

  85. A great man never draws so near his public as when it has become unnecessary to read his books and is still interesting to know what he eats for breakfast.

  86. Her voice drooped at the admission, and she hurried on, detailing the vague itinerary of a journey that was to combine long-promised visits to impatient friends with various "interesting opportunities" less definitely specified.

  87. It will be an uncommonly interesting experience.

  88. The valuable Notes and interesting Life of Wilson added to this new edition are from the pen of Sir William Jardine, a Naturalist of congenial mind in feeling and talent.

  89. This interesting genus is known only in a fossil state.

  90. Scientific men have long been engaged in the interesting discussion, whether the animal really belongs to the shell in which it is found, or whether, having destroyed the rightful owner, it has possessed itself of the "frail bark.

  91. This interesting genus is composed of some neat little shells allied to Purpura, from which they are distinguished by the finger-like branching of the outer lip, and the granulations of the columella.

  92. The interesting experiments of Madame Power, in the Mediterranean, have contributed very materially to lead the investigations of Naturalists to a satisfactory conclusion.

  93. This is by far the best edition of the American Ornithology, both on account of the beautiful plates and the interesting notes of the editor.

  94. The water was quite hot, and the steam, puffing out at regular intervals, presented an interesting sight.

  95. Cole, and I find it an interesting and instructive narrative, clothed in good diction and pleasing style.

  96. His wife was a bright and interesting woman, to whom he was deeply attached.

  97. The dogs, like the ponies, were all packed with a pole or two fastened to their necks; the whole making an interesting picture.

  98. It bears upon many subjects of great historical value and no doubt will prove a very interesting book to all who read it and I take pleasure in recommending the same.

  99. Cole, of Beatrice, Nebraska, is a very interesting and profitable work to read.

  100. Would it not, then, be a most interesting and instructive statistic that would give us a tabular view of divorce, showing in what classes frailty chiefly prevailed, with the relative sexes, and also a glimpse at the ages?

  101. It is, besides, so pleasant and so interesting to the Italian to pit his craft against another man's, and back his own subtlety against his neighbour's.

  102. It would be interesting if we had, which unhappily we have not, any statistical returns to show what classes and professions have produced the best whist-players.

  103. An interesting paper on Jean Paul will be found in Mr. Carlyle's admirable Miscellanies.

  104. Travelling about in a misanthropical mood I stopped in a small town situate in a delightful country, and through my introductions made acquaintance with some interesting people.

  105. The younger of them looked at him with astonishment, having probably heard before of Michel, but they now begged their grandpapa to tell them some interesting story of him.

  106. Our strongly-spiced beverage much enlivened us; and the doctor continued: "The mental disease of your friend is to me one of the most interesting psychological phenomena that has ever passed under my observation.

  107. Feeling once unwell and lying comfortably stretched out on the sofa, while she was reading an interesting story to me, I said, how beautiful and melodious is your voice; will you not sing again for once?

  108. He has left an interesting account of how he gathered his treasures, which may fitly be quoted here.

  109. But from their nature bindings are difficult to describe in an interesting manner, and words can hardly do justice to them without the aid of facsimile illustrations.

  110. But before closing the chapter it will be interesting to observe that Edinburgh was the place of publication of the first work printed in the Gaelic language.

  111. A most interesting résumé of the revelations which science has made concerning the habits of human beings in primitive times, and especially as to the place, the duties, and the customs of women.

  112. Next to Charles Darwin, Dean Buckland is certainly the most interesting personality in the field of natural science that the present century has produced.

  113. It would be interesting to collect observations concerning this reasoning power in the very earliest period, because at that time language does not interfere to help or to hinder.

  114. But when a plaything or an object interesting to him vexes him, he says, peevishly, stupid thing, e.

  115. He no longer represents them to himself separately, as he did before, whereas every new object felt, seen, or heard, is very interesting to him and is separately represented in idea.

  116. He asks for various objects interesting to him, with the words Ding haben (have the thing).

  117. The other sound-utterances of this period proceeding from the child's own impulse are interesting only as exercises of the apparatus of articulation.

  118. Memory improved, but fastidious; good for what is interesting and intelligible to child (181).

  119. Precisely the epoch at which this takes place belongs to the most interesting in intellectual development.

  120. In this interesting volume the author has gathered the results of careful studies of the small black races of Africa, and he shows what the pygmies of antiquity really were.

  121. One of the most absorbing and interesting of all the recent issues in the department of popular science.

  122. One of the most interesting sights I know of, in a psychological and physiological point of view, is a conversation in gesture and pantomime between two or three children born totally deaf, who do not know that they are observed.

  123. If the corpse can speak," I said, "it would be interesting to be there.

  124. At that hour Monsieur and Mademoiselle Stangerson, assisted by Daddy Jacques, were engaged in making an interesting chemical experiment in the part of the laboratory taken up by the furnaces.

  125. It will be interesting to hear Frederic Larsan's theory.

  126. Frederic Larsan said: "Monsieur President, it will be interesting to hear Monsieur Joseph Rouletabille, especially as he differs from me.


  127. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interesting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alluring; appealing; appetizing; attraction; attractive; beguiling; bewitching; captivating; catching; charismatic; charming; coquettish; enchanting; engaging; engrossing; entertaining; enthralling; enticing; entrancing; eventful; exciting; exotic; fascinating; fetching; fine; flirtatious; glamorous; hypnotic; interesting; intriguing; invigorate; inviting; irresistible; juicy; lively; mesmeric; picturesque; piquant; prepossessing; provocative; provoking; racy; readable; rich; seductive; siren; spicy; stimulating; succulent; taking; tantalizing; teasing; tempting; tickling; titillating; winning; winsome; witching


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    interesting account; interesting case; interesting example; interesting fact; interesting letter; interesting paper; interesting story