How to Use especial in a Sentence

especial

adjective
  • This is a matter of especial importance.
  • Our culture wars extend everywhere, even to—maybe especial to—science fiction.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The fact that Burgoyne stayed here on his trip back to London makes this house of especial historical interest.
    — Laura Euler For Dirt.com, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Slavic folklore about vampires suggests one partial answer to the especial fear of the vulnerable.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
  • For those familiar with the greater Boston area, the book is an especial treat, as many of her examples include familiar landmarks.
    — Michael P. H. Stanley, National Review, 20 Mar. 2021
  • But researchers have identified a handful of seismic zones around the globe that are storing up especial amounts of stress and are particularly hazardous.
    — Aline Reynolds, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2010
  • One of Wallace’s neighbors takes especial pride in having the biggest and most prominently displayed American flag on their street.
    — Michael Washburn, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Perseguido por mafiosos rusos y el FBI, un antiguo miembro de una fuerza especial de élite debe armar el rompecabezas de su memoria perdida.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • This project had drawn his attention to Pine Island Bay as a coastal area where the outer edge of glaciers might calve or break apart into icebergs with especial rapidity.
    — Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Delivery is important in any form of storytelling, and in observational comedy cadence is the especial engine of wit.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Years later, a place detective, who has suffered her own loss, travels to the village to reopen the case and develops an especial bond with the missing boy’s mother, who has never given up hope that Briel could still be alive.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
  • And the event has a growing following in China, where prestigious awards tend to command especial reverence, and where the local entertainment market continues to boom.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The Giants have been paying attention to the former Blue Jays starter all off season and took especial notice last week, when Sanchez hit 98 mph in a bullpen session.
    — Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2021
  • En este especial familiar de San Valentín, puedes usar prendas rojas o decorar tu bicicleta.
    — Silvana Pagliuca, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Yet, to my especial surprise, many of these downtrodden damsels weren’t crusading millennial activists fresh from campus indoctrination camps but women in their sixties from my own generation.
    — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The afterlives of militarism are rendered with especial power, in the show, by the painter Ali Eyal, who was nine years old when the Iraq War began in 2003.
    — Eli Jelly-Schapiro, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2020
  • The show had especial significance to the American military community.
    — David W. Blight, The New Yorker, 9 June 2021
  • Under the especial influence of the United States, the political system was standardized, and a single administrative form extended to the world.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • The phrase emphasizes the importance of communication between different nations, which carries especial significance for Beijing this year as it is engaged in an ongoing trade war with the US.
    — Jane Li, Quartz, 30 Dec. 2019
  • When this editor, who was in attendance, noted that Fortune‘s readers seem to have an especial concern with the debt story, Haass pushed back — not on the concern, but on whether the obsession has ever translated into meaningful political action.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
  • That the anniversary of the nation’s founding ought to be celebrated with especial extravagance every fifty or a hundred years, a tradition that the unlikely President Ford inherited, is an idea that started in 1826, the jubilee of independence.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026

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