Examples of 'earnest' in a sentence

Meaning of "earnest"

Earnest is a noun meaning serious and intense conviction. It often implies sincerity and truthfulness in one's actions or beliefs
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  • Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.
  • Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence)
  • To be serious with; use in earnest.
  • Serious or honest.

How to use "earnest" in a sentence

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It is my earnest prayer she will not leave.
Today we begin work on the album in earnest.
I gather he was an earnest man with a meek personality.
The work can then start in earnest.
We started trying in earnest that very night.
It is my earnest hope that it is the last time we do so.
The early diagnostics is an earnest of successful operation.
It is my earnest effort to make sure it is not static.
Stabilization operations could then commence in earnest.
I began to study in earnest out of pure boredom.
Being earnest never served as a guarantee against foolishness.
Demons envy the earnest praying man.
And take him in token of our earnest.
And the earnest hope of thy forgiveness.
The environmental movement had begun in earnest.

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This is my earnest hope and appeal to you.
Building for shared prosperity is progressing in earnest.
It will be my earnest endeavor to respect your confidence.
All the thugs now set to in earnest.
Listening earnestly to earnest words is only proper.
I have had enough of this earnest bullshit.
I write in earnest for the last time.
Henceforth you are unmanned and mine in earnest.
This is earnest money to buy this house.
The invasion can then begin in earnest.
Your boyfriend really is earnest about everything he does.
Time for the adults to hunt in earnest.
I would like an earnest word with you.
Epithets uttered in irony can be repeated in earnest.
You are the most earnest looking person.
The party would then started in earnest.
She was an earnest woman who loved to practice.
She was just so weepy and earnest and.
It took off in earnest after the crash.
They refused to talk to me in spite of my earnest request.
God loves earnest and open heart.
He was a forceful lecturer and an earnest lay preacher.
It is my earnest wish that we begin this debate.
I will give your words earnest consideration.
Work on the maternity home begins in earnest.
Then the earnest pleadings and warnings.
You have becomesuch an earnest young man.
The most earnest kind of bullshit.
That kind of listener is the earnest listener.
It is our earnest wish that they will succeed.
I thought he really seemed like an earnest person.
When we fly in earnest rentarte pel í a few films.
As long as we pray and our prayers are earnest.
The style is by turns earnest and sarcastic.
He suddenly packed his things in dead earnest.

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