Sample Sentences forardent (editor-reviewed)
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I am her most ardent fan.ardent = enthusiastic (feeling intense emotion)
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She is an ardent defender of free speech.
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Such a change in a man of so much pride exciting not only astonishment but gratitude—for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and as such its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not be exactly defined. (source)ardent = intense
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Sasaki was an ardent track fan, and he sought Louie's acquaintance.† (source)
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Linna, who had become an ardent Zen Gnostic in the years between, cried and left early.† (source)
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Several townspeople were standing with the players—mothers and dads and ardent baseball fans.† (source)
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But a young man would hardly have an ardent wish for a couple of balloons.† (source)
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He was experimenting with being ardently sympathetic with everybody he met.† (source)
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Frederick's voice trembles with ardency.† (source)
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Her ardentness was off-putting on a sunny afternoon, and when the open faces of young men caught sight of her they closed down or looked away.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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How he felt humanity squeeze his hand, and how he let that hand go — shook himself free of it, even, like a young boy confronted with an overardent admirer.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overardent means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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His accent is very different from Frau Elena's, and yet his voice is so ardent, so hypnotizing, that Werner finds he can understand every word.† (source)
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I want to hear your answer—it must be interesting if you're so ardently resisting.† (source)
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She would have responded to the ardency of their beliefs.† (source)
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At the space-age, glassed-in office of the storage facility, I was the only customer; and though I'd prepared a cover story (ardent camper; neat-freak mom) the men at the desk seemed completely uninterested in my large, well-labeled sporting goods bag with the tag of the pup tent dangling artfully outside.† (source)
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He wished, he rejected, he ardently wished again, in flight, in heat-spell river of wind and blaze of metal, in jog of July and August horses whose hoofs thudded the air like thrown fruit, his eyes blazed.† (source)
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