especial
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
"I feel especial pain and shame that a terrorist act was carried out by my own hands."
From BBC
China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has an especial dislike of Lai who has previously described himself as a "practical worker for Taiwan independence".
From Reuters
The Hubble Space Telescope, freed from the tethers of gravity and the blurriness of the atmosphere, can produce images of especial clarity.
From Salon
Shannon’s father’s deathbed sequence is an especial corker.
From New York Times
Parsed into 10 “chapters,” with its swirling rhythms, involuted structure and flights into abstraction, “Time Passes” presents an especial challenge to the pre-post-pandemic brain.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.