ARDENTLY in a Sentence

ardently

 ad.  very enthusiastically or passionately

1  That coat for Ashley was a sore subject with Scarlett, for she wished so ardently that she and not Melanie were bestowing it as a Christmas gift.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV

2  She leaned toward him ardently but he held her away from him, looking at her with eyes from which all remoteness had fled, eyes tormented with struggle and despair.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

3  She had not seen a professional bad woman since she left Savannah with Ellen more than twenty years before and she wished ardently that she had observed Belle more closely.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII

4  She had missed him but she now wished ardently that there was some way to avoid seeing him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII

5  To them, she not only represented wealth and elegance but the old regime, with its old names, old families, old traditions with which they wished ardently to identify themselves.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX

6  That it was her real self, every pulse in him ardently denied.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14

7  When she was most ardently singing hymns or planning deviltry she yet seemed gently aloof and critical.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I

8  I had at one time over forty scholars, and those of the right sort, ardently desiring to learn.

The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X

9  You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4

10  I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

11  When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

12  This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12

13  I ardently desired to understand them, and bent every faculty towards that purpose, but found it utterly impossible.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13

14  I knew from her own lips that she regarded herself as the innocent cause of his errors, and as owing him a great debt she ardently desired to pay.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY

15  So I thanked her ardently for this mark of her affection, and for all her other kindnesses towards me; and after a tender good night, she took her nightcap into my bedroom.

David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION

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.