Examples of zeal in a Sentence
… he was uncomfortable with their lavish parties and their collector's zeal for the most expensive, most ostentatious brand names—Rolex and Prada and Farragamo.
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Anne Tyler, Digging to America, 2006
In 1248, channelling his piety into crusading zeal, Louis embarked on the Seventh Crusade, against the wishes of the Pope and against the judgement of his counsellors.
—Alistair Horne, Seven Ages of Paris, 2002
He showed his anatomical zeal by robbing a wayside gibbet, smuggling the bones back home and reconstructing the skeleton.
—Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, 1997
Anne Tyler, Digging to America, 2006
In 1248, channelling his piety into crusading zeal, Louis embarked on the Seventh Crusade, against the wishes of the Pope and against the judgement of his counsellors.
—Alistair Horne, Seven Ages of Paris, 2002
He showed his anatomical zeal by robbing a wayside gibbet, smuggling the bones back home and reconstructing the skeleton.
—Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, 1997
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With gleaming new infrastructure and a zeal for technological progress lacking in the United States, these regions show that the West is no longer exceptional in its embrace of progress, contrary to what Maine once posited.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
And the zeal for thrifting appears to be only growing not just in central Virginia, but across the country.
—Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
Well, the state’s zeal to kill Zeigler has now spanned five decades.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
The seeds that burst into the formation of a new country were planted as early as 1760 when Boston became the center of patriotic zeal and resistance to what some colonists felt was unfair treatment by the government of British King George III.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 23 Mar. 2025
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Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
And the zeal for thrifting appears to be only growing not just in central Virginia, but across the country.
—Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2025
Well, the state’s zeal to kill Zeigler has now spanned five decades.
—Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
The seeds that burst into the formation of a new country were planted as early as 1760 when Boston became the center of patriotic zeal and resistance to what some colonists felt was unfair treatment by the government of British King George III.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Zeal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zeal. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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