Sample Sentences foravidity (auto-selected)
avidity as in: high avidity T cells
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Hubert Bazin with his copper mask and boyish avidity and his breath like crushed insects.† (source)
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He shook his head now, admiring with genuine avidity the spread of fruit before him; strawberries arranged in turned-up cedar flats, heavy and pungent, deeply crimson and firm, a regal abundance of them.† (source)
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He was staring at the door with a kind of drugged avidity, and his upper body seemed to twitch and jiggle beneath his flannel shirt.† (source)
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A little more, St. John — look at the avidity in her eyes.† (source)
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But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.† (source)
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This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centred on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.† (source)
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She went back to eating earth and the whitewash on the walls with the avidity of previous days, and she sucked her finger with so much anxiety that she developed a callus on her thumb.† (source)
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Some of these prophetic writings were actually serialized in our newspapers and read with as much avidity as the love-stories that had occupied these columns in the piping times of health.† (source)
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I was too much exhausted to reflect upon this circumstance, but ate and drank with avidity.† (source)
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Madame de Villefort listened with avidity to these appalling maxims and horrible paradoxes, delivered by the count with that ironical simplicity which was peculiar to him.† (source)
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I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine.† (source)
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They wanted high excitement, not from the necessity of stimulating jaded nerves but with the avidity of prize-winning schoolchildren who deserved their vacations.† (source)
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Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee — even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before.† (source)
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Me the weary booking agent or impresario, watched by them with wrath and avidity, with tics, with dignity by some and booby-hatch glares by others.† (source)
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She had an avidity for the forbidden wordsymbols; an insatiable appetite for the sound of them on his tongue and on her own.† (source)
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My uncle pounced upon this shred with incredible avidity.† (source)
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