How to Use not especially in a Sentence

not especially

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• Its driver pay, which varies by city, is not especially high.
  — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• He was not especially liked by colleagues.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
• Bailey is not especially strong but that can be addressed.
  — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
• Though not especially roomy, the master suite has enough space for a wee sitting area in the bedroom.
  — James McClain, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2024
• Wickline is the straight role but does not especially land the dark comedy.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2024
• But the day-to-day work of the Tevatron was not especially glamorous.
  — Samia Bouzid, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2024
• The layout is also not especially smooth for fast, one-handed phone use.
  — PCMAG, 1 Nov. 2024
• The men are angry, poorly trained, not especially bright.
  — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Feb. 2026
• This is a hard question to answer, and one I was not especially engaged by.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
• They are not especially attracted to human blood and do not crave human flesh.
  — Katherine Rundell, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• In my opinion, in most cases home testing for flu is not especially useful.
  — Zachary W. Binder, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2026
• That said, while the Princess of Wales loves spicy foods, the Queen is not especially keen on them.
  — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 30 Jan. 2026
• Gregory and his wife are not especially worried about the damage done to the couch anyway.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
• That non-runners are annoyed by run clubs is not especially surprising.
  — Melissa Dahl, Curbed, 15 May 2025
• That this piece is not especially long causes the aforementioned twist to land even more forcefully.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
• These phrases are just not especially evocative.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
• Trump's demands on Europe to buy more oil and natural gas were not especially new.
  — Josh Boak and Raf Casert The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2024
• Some parts of the plot are also not especially kid-appropriate.
  — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
• Goode is a talented but not especially versatile actor who tends to read as somewhat posh on screen.
  — Nina Metz Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, 1 June 2025
• The afternoon, at least, was not especially bright with vernal promise.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024
• For a weekday morning, the park was not especially crowded, yet there were an astounding number of dogs.
  — Rachel Sugar, Curbed, 8 Apr. 2026
• Young adults are much less confident about their ability to buy a house, though confidence is not especially high across the board.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
• There’s still no word on new mainline Mario and Zelda games, but that’s not especially a deal-breaker.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 23 May 2025
• The duplex is located in Milan, but its style is not especially evocative of the city.
  — Valentina Raggi, Architectural Digest, 20 Sep. 2025
• Findings like this are not especially common for the area, Novak noted.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
• In an era of global warming, that's not especially surprising.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2024
• The mouth feel, while not especially viscous, does just enough to allow flavors to linger across multiple quadrants of the tongue.
  — David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
• Why go long then, if this style of distribution is not especially suited to United’s squad?
  — Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
• In surveys through the years, people did not especially blame either party for the epidemic.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
• His time in Jurassic Park was not especially funny either.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026