How to Use particular in a Sentence

particular

1 of 2 adjective
  • Pay particular attention to the poet's choice of words.
  • Our teacher is very particular when it comes to punctuation.
  • The computer program will be of particular interest to teachers.
  • This particular event here is run by a great group of guys and gals.
    — Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • But on this particular day, her luck had run out.
    — Nora Deligter, Curbed, 6 Mar. 2026
  • How much would this particular lunch be worth?
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • But his mom told him to watch out for one player in particular.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
  • This one, in particular, has given me a lot of food for thought.
    — James Factora, Them., 26 Sep. 2025
  • The strait has been a particular point of conflict in the war.
    — Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • For one thing, the trend is not tied to any particular cuisine.
    — ABC News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The clerk then agreed not to exclude particular groups from the pool.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Most have been themed around what that particular player would bring to the club.
    — Art De Roché, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • That particular fear is over now.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • The sports star, in particular, recalled how hurt his wife felt.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
  • White potatoes in particular have a very high glycemic load.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2026
  • There was one match in particular.
    — Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • One in particular sticks out to Welch now.
    — Elise Devlin, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • There was no green screen in that particular sequence.
    — Andrew McGowan, Variety, 23 May 2026
  • As if this particular void could never be filled.
    — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
  • Or, well, one trick in particular.
    — Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Was there a particular challenge that still haunts you?
    — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The end of the film marks, to me, the end of a particular chapter of healing.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Thomas, in particular, has struggled out of the gate.
    — Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Both are fairly equal, thanks to having a particular set of pros and cons.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • This was the 28th flight for this particular stage.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And there are two particular drivers of this.
    — NBC news, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Wine, in particular, was a mystery to me.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Swift has been playing the long game with this re-recording in particular.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2023
  • One moment in particular has stayed with him.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But this particular version hinges on many things going right, all at once.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026

particular

2 of 2 noun
  • They wanted to know the facts down to every particular.
  • How that is done depends on the particulars of a case.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • But the particulars of how and where to apply it still elude them.
    — Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • While many celebs liked getting slimed, one in particular did not.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 10 Dec. 2018
  • But in the race, many of the particulars have been lost to the mists of history.
    — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
  • This is, to a degree, because of the particulars of the case.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • By the time someone got around to it, so much time had passed that countless particulars were lost.
    — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 18 June 2018
  • The particulars of this project make those delays just about inevitable.
    — Wired, 11 Sep. 2019
  • But Leo didn’t catch the particulars.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But even as quality and particulars vary, there is a sameness to a lot of these shows.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • If an applicant could just turn up who was a fit in every particular, that’d be great.
    — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Servers have been trained in the minute particulars of brewing a quality pot of tea.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • A number of panels will parse through those particulars in public this week.
    — Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 2 June 2025
  • Within hours, Noah was back with the particulars.
    — Eddie Huang, Curbed, 8 Sep. 2025
  • At this point, the particulars of my divorce were mostly settled.
    — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • But some contractors took issue with the particulars of the bill.
    — P.r. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2026
  • That pivotal play is broken down by a variety of particulars on both sides.
    — Greg Rajan, Houston Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2026
  • One fan in particular got some quality time with Willock in the hours before his death.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Grant can’t remember the particulars of the joke.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
  • During that time, not much has changed about the particulars of the case, nor how they have been processed by both the courts and the public.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 30 June 2023
  • The particulars of the partnership are at this stage unclear.
    — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Details on the particulars of the city’s agreement with the two men were scarce on Monday night.
    — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to the particulars of the grape, there is the question of how exactly the wine is made.
    — Rachel Sugar, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
  • Without getting into the particulars, this looked like good news.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2023
  • The expectation here is that it gets done, with just the particulars about options and other terms to iron out.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The value of art can’t lie only in the particulars of a story, or of characters’ fates.
    — Garth Greenwell, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The particulars of Fox’s mood, and its conservatism, adapted and evolved with the eras.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The particulars of their reunion are best left vague here, my way with exposition being no less clunky than the movie’s.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • For those forgetful of the particulars of the Pell case, permit me to briefly recap.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
  • By statute, districts must send voters a mailer spelling out those particulars.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 28 Oct. 2025

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