interest
noun
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something.
am interesting
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present progressiveof interest (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“I’m aware that I will be unfashionable very shortly, and so I want to tell as many stories as I can while I still am interesting to people.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2019
It is not because I am interesting, but I have the idea it will be an attraction if you nominate an unknown world citizen who has had, until now, bad luck.
From Time Magazine Archive
"First of all, I will ask you," said Nekhludoff, "not to disclose that I am interesting myself in this case."
From The Awakening The Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Count
Circumstances have lately happened which lead to the hope that it may yet be found—and I am interesting myself, as one of the family, in recovering it.
From The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
In spite of which I am interesting myself deeply in the three act comedy I have undertaken for Frohman—and which I find ferociously difficult—but with a difficulty that, thank God, draws me on and fascinates.
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James
