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Katya's zeal was contagious; soon all her fellow students were busily making posters, inspired by her ardent enthusiasm for the cause.

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 Meanings and Examples of ARDENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ardent
 a.  displaying or by strong enthusiasm or devotion; passionate
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  Scarlett had received too many ardent love letters herself not to recognize the authentic note of passion when she saw it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  As if by magic, the door of the parlor opened and the wide black face of Mammy appeared, ardent curiosity and deepest suspicion evident in every wrinkle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  I'm going away tomorrow and I'm too ardent a lover to restrain my passion any longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  He could be an ardent, almost a tender, lover for a brief while, and almost immediately a mocking devil who ripped the lid from her gunpowder temper, fired it and enjoyed the explosion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
5  The satisfaction derived from this act was all that the most ardent moralist could have desired.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
6  She was sure that Gerty knew Selden's feeling for her, and it had never dawned upon her blindness that Gerty's own judgment of him was coloured by emotions far more ardent than her own.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
7  She was loyal enough but not ardent, and without ever quite intending to, she began to neglect the task as heat sucked at her strength.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  I believed her young, ardent, reckless, disillusioned, under sentence, feverish, avid of pleasure.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
9  As the day approached when he was to leave her for a comparatively long stay, she grew melting and affectionate, remembering his many acts of consideration and his repeated expressions of an ardent attachment.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
10  Heyward ventured to hurl the tomahawk he had seized, too ardent to await the moment of closing.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
11  To these ardent and nearly innocent words Cora made no other answer than by straining the youthful speaker to her heart, as she bent over her in melting tenderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
12  At this meeting divers plans of operation were suggested, though none of a character to meet the wishes of their ardent leader.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
13  I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1
14  I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent, and at the same time she gently deplored her own fate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence:
1  All her fellow demonstrators were busily making posters and handing out flyers, inspired by her ardent enthusiasm for the cause.
2  Katya's zeal was contagious; soon all her fellow students were busily making posters, inspired by her ardent enthusiasm for the cause.
3  Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, and the eager.
4  The general who led the military takeover of Thailand is known as an ardent defender of the monarchy, an adversary of the former prime minister at the center of the nation's political crisis, and a prickly personality prone to snap at unwanted questions.
5  I've never met such an ardent pacifist as Terry.