interest
noun
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something.
was interesting
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past progressiveof interest.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It was interesting to see how the two brothers, who were both born in London, felt more Colombian or more English.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Nikolay Oskolkov, a researcher at the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis not involved in the study, told AFP it was interesting that "the Iceman's microbiome is not 'frozen'".
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Anthropic also said it was interesting in working with SpaceX to “develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.”
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
“I thought it was interesting to imagine: What is that in reality? What would that feel like day to day? What was his domestic situation?” he continues.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Learning and remembering things of the past and finding out about faraway places was interesting to me.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
