passions

Example Sentences

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Sports have a way of fueling nationalistic passions, and I fully expect plenty of people who don’t care much about soccer to channel their patriotic sentiments into the tournament.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026

Woodman rang the bell on the Nasdaq trading floor, and the company touted its products as a way to enable "people to capture their life's passions in ways they could have never done before."

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

As an artificial-intelligence researcher with a specialty in videogames, Togelius is caught in the middle of what he calls “an ongoing culture war” between his passions.

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

Born September 27, 1968, in San Pedro, Muldoon’s early passions included football.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

The long years of solitude and unhappiness had distilled her emotions and purified her feelings down to a few terrible, magnificent passions, which possessed her totally.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende