EARNEST in a Sentence
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225 example sentences for EARNEST, such as:
1. Campaigning will begin in earnest tomorrow.
2. Despite her earnest efforts, she could not find a job.
3. It is earnestly hoped that you'll attend out tea party.
4. When she threatened to report us, she was in dead earnest.
5. Hugh lay on his stomach, making an earnest business of sleeping.
2. Despite her earnest efforts, she could not find a job.
3. It is earnestly hoped that you'll attend out tea party.
4. When she threatened to report us, she was in dead earnest.
5. Hugh lay on his stomach, making an earnest business of sleeping.
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Meanings and Examples of EARNEST
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earnest
n. something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 "I think we should go," said Scarlett, trying to curb her eagerness and to keep her face earnest and simple.
2 When she was able to bear the sniffling noise no longer, Scarlett turned and pinched her viciously, causing Prissy to scream in good earnest before she relapsed into frightened silence.
3 Poor Pittypat would be upset in earnest if she came downstairs pink and blooming.
4 Miss Bart, accordingly, rose the next morning with the most earnest conviction that it was her duty to go to church.
5 He was so desperately in earnest, poor youth, and his earnestness was of so different a quality from Bertha's, though hers too was desperate enough.
6 The difference was that Bertha was in earnest only about herself, while he was in earnest about her.
7 He was too much in earnest now to feel any false constraint in speaking his mind.
8 The earnest virgins were, she fancied, as likely to do harm as to do good by their faith in the value of parsing Caesar.
9 Hugh lay on his stomach, making an earnest business of sleeping.
10 Vida Sherwin had given her a letter to an earnest woman with eye-glasses, plaid silk waist, and a belief in Bible Classes, who introduced her to the Pastor and the Nicer Members of Tincomb.
11 For a moment I stood a little puzzled by this curious request, not knowing exactly how to take it, whether humorously or in earnest.
12 He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.
13 Hurriedly turning, with averted face, he descended into his cabin, leaving the strange captain transfixed at this unconditional and utter rejection of his so earnest suit.
14 THE DAY AFTER COMMENCEMENT I moved my books and desk upstairs, to an empty room where I should be undisturbed, and I fell to studying in earnest.
15 You should either quit school and go to work, or change your college and begin again in earnest.
Example Sentence:
1 Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest.
2 In life's earnest battle they only prevail, who daily march onward and never say fail.
3 Campaigning will begin in earnest tomorrow.
4 It is my earnest wish that you use this money to continue you study of music.
5 When I looked over, he was in earnest conversation with his father.
6 Despite her earnest efforts, she could not find a job.
7 The girl's earnest effort counterbalanced her slowness at learning.
8 When she threatened to report us, she was in dead earnest.
9 I was endeavoring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition.
10 Before they got out of the cab Douglass turned to him, his expression earnest at last.
11 When Mark told Mona he loved her, she dismissed his earnest declaration with a flippant "Oh, you say that to all the girls!".
12 My mind made its first earnest effort to comprehend what had been infused into it concerning heaven and hell.
13 That's a 40 percent increase over levels in 1750, before humans began burning fossil fuels in earnest.
14 She felt that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly.
15 It is earnestly hoped that you'll attend out tea party.