fervency

Example Sentences

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Audiences are constantly looking to see the wealthy get their butts handed to them, and the fervency of that desire has only grown as the disparity between economic classes has widened.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

Scores of university students on Wednesday marched to the parliamentary chambers in the capital, Kampala, to thank lawmakers for enacting the bill, underscoring the fervency of the bill’s supporters.

From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2023

“DragCon presents an outlet and an avenue to safely, fully, and authentically express oneself, I say that with such fervency, because I myself was that person who needed that space.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2023

Perhaps it is the manner of Cantelli’s death, the waste of it, that explains some of the fervency of interest that has come to surround him.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022

But the fervency died on his ardent young lips when they got into the house and sat decorously in the parlor with Mrs. Gray.

From Dr. Lavendar's People by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell