We found 47 examples of how to use earnest in an English sentence.
Sentences 26 to 47 of 47.
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| 26. | He started to study in earnest. | |
| 27. | They offer an earnest prayer on the evening of December 24. | |
| 28. | They are earnest about their children's education. | |
| 29. | She's a very earnest person. | |
| 30. | She is an earnest student. | |
| 31. | Oh my. However much it's just a P.E. class; if you don't face it in real earnest, then when it comes to a real fight it won't do you any good. | |
| 32. | I hurriedly started searching in earnest. | |
| 33. | He began courting her in earnest when he found out that she had another suitor. | |
| 34. | They refused to talk to me in spite of my earnest request. | |
| 35. | I'd like an earnest word with you. | |
| 36. | What an unfailing barrier against vice, immorality and bad habits are those tastes which lead us to embellish a home, to which at all times and in all places we turn with delight, as being the object and the scene of our fondest cares, labours and enjoyments; whose humble roof, whose shady porch, whose verdant lawn and smiling flowers all breathe forth to us, in true, earnest tones, a domestic feeling that at once purifies the heart and binds us more closely to our fellow beings. | |
| 37. | The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. | |
| 38. | Tom is a very earnest person. | |
| 39. | "Are you in earnest, Marilla?" she demanded when voice returned to her. | |
| 40. | My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which I uttered them. I had already observed that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art as any girl could be of her beauty. | |
| 41. | Bruno is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago, he's Ernest. | |
| 42. | She had sat up until nearly twelve the preceding night composing a speech she meant to make to her pupils upon opening the school. She had revised and improved it painstakingly, and then she had learned it off by heart. It was a very good speech and had some very fine ideas in it, especially about mutual help and earnest striving after knowledge. The only trouble was that she could not now remember a word of it. | |
| 43. | With his half-in-jest half-in-earnest air, we never know if René is speaking seriously or not. | |
| 44. | Over the summer months, Tom began studying Esperanto in earnest. | |
| 45. | He took it with much ado at his brother's earnest pressing him, and said: Let us go together, and I will accompany thee in thy journey. | |
| 46. | Are you kidding and not speaking in earnest? | |
| 47. | Carbon emissions trading has yet to take off in earnest. |