Sample sentences for ARDENT - verbalworkout.com

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Definition

showing or feeling intense emotion — typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love

I am her most ardent fan.

ardent = enthusiastic (feeling intense emotion)

She is an ardent defender of free speech.

ardent = enthusiastic (feeling intense emotion)

I only want to be very sure that I know what your real preferences are," and he turned and searched her face with a pair of ardent eyes.
Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
Rosalie and Emmett kissed again—longer and more ardently than before.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband—a caring citizen—a worshipper of abstract and unifying God.
Peter Shaffer -- Equus
His research so horrified him that he became an ardent abolitionist for life.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
I was now, as I perceived, that good-looking and ardent boy whom I had seen making so eagerly for love's door.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
Blanca wept, throwing her arms around his neck, clasping him to her ardently, and covering his face with kisses.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
Or is there some ardent squire dreaming of your favors?
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.
O. Henry -- The Gift of the Magi
My explanation is that Marfa Petrovna was an ardent and impressionable woman and simply fell in love herself—literally fell in love—with your sister.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
She would have responded to the ardency of their beliefs.
Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
An afterglow deepened within his spirit, whence the white flame had passed, deepening to a rose and ardent light.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
CYRANO (ardently): Hideous!
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
As Steve was being gentle and ardent, inside I was talking myself down the path again.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
Aglaya was kissing her mother's lips and cheeks and hands; they were hugging each other in the most ardent way.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
He put his own hand there, as if he could hardly realize such an outrage from one whom it had once been his wont to treat with ardent generosity.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
We advanced regardless of everything, drawn on by ardent curiosity.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
He wished ardently to grasp the chance, but in those days young men did nothing without their parents' consent.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
I want to say thank you but don't because I'm afraid of being ardent and scaring her off.
Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life

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