ardency

Example Sentences

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He danced with electric energy, sang with heartwarming ardency, and splashed perspiration around the Circle in the Square in “Just in Time,” portraying the 1960s chart-topper and sometime movie star Bobby Darin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Teenagers can be cynical or anxious, they can be wry, but they also have natural belief in a better world, they are wired for ardency.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2020

Jackson’s most passionate defenders — a group known for its ardency — went to war, immediately demanding that Ms. Nottage, a two-time Pulitzer winner and one of America’s most respected dramatists, be fired.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2019

One: He loved a woman, with a great, unslakable ardency, named Fanny Brawne.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2019

They refer only to ordinary events, but contain some expressions which denote the ardency of his patriotism, and the disappointments to which it was not unfrequently subjected in consequence of the apathy of others.

From The Life of Francis Marion by Simms, William Gilmore