PASSIONATE in a Sentence

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For PASSIONATE, below is one of 244 sentences:
Pitty was not overly fond of India, for India intimidated her with her dry, stiff-necked ways and her passionate convictions.

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 Meanings and Examples of PASSIONATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
passionate
 a.  zealous; enthusiastic; filled with or motivated by zeal
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Had Charles with his fumbling awkwardness and his embarrassed intimacies tapped any of the deep vein of passionate feeling within her, her dreams of Ashley would not be ending with a kiss.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  She thought of the four Tarletons, the red-haired twins and Tom and Boyd, and a passionate sadness caught at her throat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  She looked at him and realized dimly that there was an integrity of spirit in him which was not to be torn apart by her passionate hands, nor by any hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  Then his mouth went down violently at one corner and he swore with passionate impatience.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  Melanie had all that passionate clan loyalty peculiar to Georgians and the thought of a family quarrel tore her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
6  Pitty was not overly fond of India, for India intimidated her with her dry, stiff-necked ways and her passionate convictions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
7  His passionate, drunken gaze met hers and he stopped, mouth open, as though for the first time he realized to whom he was speaking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
8  She had to lose them all to realize that she loved Rhett--loved him because he was strong and unscrupulous, passionate and earthy, like herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
9  The immediate result of these conclusions was the passionate resolve to pay back her debt to Trenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
10  She had a passionate desire that some one should know the truth about this transaction, and also that the rumour of her intention to repay the money should reach Judy Trenor's ears.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  His light tone, in which, had her nerves been steadier, she would have recognized the mere effort to bridge over an awkward moment, jarred on her passionate desire to be understood.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
12  With a passionate jerk she pushed up the window, looked out, the arched fingers of her left hand trembling on the sill, her right hand at her breast.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  She prayed to Jesus, always to the Son of God, offering him the terrible power of her adoration, addressing him as the eternal lover, growing passionate, exalted, large, as she contemplated his splendor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  In a passionate escape there must be not only a place from which to flee but a place to which to flee.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
15  And this is their utterance; merry and boisterous, or mournful and wailing, or passionate and rebellious, this music is their music, music of home.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  The scientist is motivated by a passion for what is true and a sense of responsibility towards what is true.
17  Even though he was not conservatory trained, his passion for music took him to the point where eventually he was considered one of the best guitar accompanist in Cuba.
18  In a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' about once in a minute.
19  The poet expressed his burning passion for the woman he loved.
20  He has fused his musical talent, his passion for humanity, and his community and political activism into an extraordinary, multi-faceted career.
21  Along with a new vision of love, sentimentalism presented a new view of human nature which prized feeling over thinking, passion over reason, and personal instincts over social duties.
22  In his novels and stories, storms rage for years, flowers drift from the skies, tyrants survive for centuries, priests levitate and corpses fail to decompose. And, more plausibly, lovers rekindle their passion after a half-century apart.
23  He alone is happy who commands his passions.
24  She could choose her own partner in matrimony, as long as she gave no utterance to her passions and emotions.
25  Politics and philosophy were his lifelong passions.
26  It is the passions which provide the main impulse of music.
27  Rachel's arrival on the scene had unleashed passions in him that he could scarcely control.
28  The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.
29  Henever spoke of the softer passions with a gibe and a sneer.
30  There was a young couple on the sofa, kissing passionately.