earnestly
Example Sentences
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Earnestly scribbling in a Moleskine notebook, Jim radiates nervous energy and ambition; Emily notices the way he hungrily eyes her desk when she asks him where he sees himself in five years.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018
Earnestly devised, it was studiously ignored by almost everyone in Washington.
From Forbes • Oct. 8, 2014
Earnestly ruffling his youngest brother’s hair, he flashed me a winning smile.
From New York Times • May 17, 2012
Earnestly directed by Charles Vidor, this picture cinematizes Howard Spring's best-selling English novel about a best-selling English novelist, who, having sired an easily spoiled son, does everything he can to spoil him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Earnestly and expertly, he cast himself not as an outsider but rather as a literal embodiment of the American story.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing earnestly
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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