fervor

Example Sentences

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“He was a scrupulously superficial man, believing so fervently in the magic of surfaces that his fervor almost passed for profundity,” Mr. Junod writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

She’s reiterating what she’s read with such fervor that she grips the book not like a story, but like a treasure.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026

Given the present fervor for gold, and the corresponding aversion to bitcoin, this call from JPMorgan’s global markets strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou is quite the take.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026

In “Canticle,” a debut from Janet Rich Edwards, a young woman named Aleys enters religious life in 13th-century Bruges, Belgium, after a Franciscan, Brother Lukas, witnesses her fervor.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

She had begged God with such fervor for something fearful to happen so that she would not have to poison Rebeca that she felt guilty of Remedios' death.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez