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  • The boy rode along through the desert for several hours, listening avidly to what his heart had to say.  (source)
    avidly = enthusiastically or with great interest
  • Both men were generations ahead of their times, uniquely gifted artists, members of secret societies, and, most notably, avid pranksters.  (source)
    avid = enthusiastic
  • Meg was sure it was not only imagination that made her feel that behind Mr. Jenkins' surface concern was a gleam of avid curiosity.  (source)
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  • For an English professor, and for any avid reader, having a blithely ignorant (and only recently clued-in) husband narrate the saga of his wife's longtime infidelity is about as good as it gets.  (source)
    avid = enthusiastic
  • Behind her he saw many of the students watching them avidly.  (source)
    avidly = with great interest
  • MARY WARREN, glancing about at the avid faces: Why—I made it in the court, sir, and—give it to Goody Proctor tonight.  (source)
    avid = greatly interested
  • We had learned that before her death, Ronda Morrison had been receiving menacing calls and that there was a man who had been avidly and inappropriately pursuing her—stopping by unannounced at the cleaners, maybe even stalking her.  (source)
    avidly = with great interest
  • Those invited had crammed themselves into the house, deferential, lugubrious, avid with curiosity.†  (source)
  • Then the trail, the frustration, claimed him again and he searched the ground avidly.  (source)
  • A thousand avid eyes.†  (source)
  • As my high school career was coming to an end, I was still being avidly recruited by college programs.†  (source)
    avidly = enthusiastically or with great interest
  • Only human servers were present—a concession to Levana's avid distrust of androids.†  (source)
  • He listened avidly for any mention of Rawlings, Pennsylvania.†  (source)
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