human interest

Example Sentences

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He also has worked as a reporter for the Houston Chronicle, where he often wrote human interest stories and reported on the region's large population of immigrants, education and suburban news.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Annie enjoys covering trends in human interest, LGBTQ+ issues and climate policy.

From Salon • Aug. 18, 2025

It’s just really hard because in some ways these are both human interest stories and legal stories.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2024

Thankfully, this is also true for those of us who enjoy a well-told saga about a more universal human interest: music.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024

So in order to have any human interest in their stories, science fiction writers had to suppose that we would one day discover how to travel faster than light.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking