How to Use interested in a Sentence

interested

adjective
  • I'm interested to hear what you have to say.
  • The plan will have to be approved by all interested parties.
  • I'd be interested to learn more about his background.
  • I asked him if he wanted to play tennis, but he said he wasn't interested.
  • The listeners were all greatly interested in the lecture.
  • I was very interested to learn that she had once lived in California.
  • O’Brien takes a firmly closed door and opens it just a tiny crack if the Krafts are interested.
    Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • And teams are clearly interested in what Johnson brings to the table.
    The Indianapolis Star, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The students were tasked with creating something impactful to drive change, and both were interested in health care.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Is this decline because, as some suggest, young people aren’t interested in having children?
    Sarah Hayford, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Joel isn't interested, and not only because this is a distraction from his efforts to find Tommy.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Be genuinely interested in others, share knowledge and offer help.
    Vamsi Krishna Dhakshinadhi, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Crean, just 37 at the time, became one of the hottest names in the coaching circuit, with reports that places like UCLA were interested.
    Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Spitzer had tried to get funding for his project, but the National Library of Medicine and potential corporate sponsors were not interested.
    National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • None of them seemed to be in a hurry or to be interested in the others.
    Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Male flies are less interested in these smells as a sign of food.
    Christine Picard, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Doja Cat seems to have a new man in her life — and she’s been interested in him for a while.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2024
  • The Bruins would be among at least a dozen interested bidders if Stamkos opts out of the Bay.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The problem is the industry has changed and no one is interested in the song – or Claude.
    Jaden Thompson, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Omar is less interested in stoking the flames of his feuds.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2023
  • There’s a lot of interested parties for all the right reasons.
    oregonlive, 21 July 2023
  • Phil takes an interested look at all the action, then grabs a huge handful of candy from the bowl by the door and heads out.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Still, there's a lot of consumers in the United States that have not cruised and are interested in cruising.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • There is simply a whole lot of Suits to watch for anyone interested.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2023
  • And then there's a lot of U.S. investors very interested in the decline of TikTok, so that's going on behind the scenes at the same time.
    CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • That said, the Rodeo moves at its own pace happily—like a marathoner who can go the distance but isn't interested in the sprints.
    Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 18 June 2023
  • But that doesn’t mean the others aren’t interested in reprising their roles.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 18 May 2023
  • Jojo took to it at a young age, and is real interested.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
  • In their wake, countless groups have come crawling out of the woodwork, but much of the new-school shoegaze this year felt less focused on the past and more interested in the here and now.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
  • For a moment, the film seems interested in the ambiguity of that tension.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024

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