Sample Sentences for
ardent
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  • Sasaki was an ardent track fan, and he sought Louie's acquaintance.†  (source)
  • Linna, who had become an ardent Zen Gnostic in the years between, cried and left early.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • He was experimenting with being ardently sympathetic with everybody he met.†  (source)
  • Frederick's voice trembles with ardency.†  (source)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • I want to hear your answer—it must be interesting if you're so ardently resisting.†  (source)
  • She would have responded to the ardency of their beliefs.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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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