Sentence Examples

1. The crew set to work in good earnest, inspired by the reward to be gained.
2. By the time Cervantes had got his volume of novels off his hands, and summoned up resolution enough to set about the Second Part in earnest, the case was very much altered.
3. The prince looked around the ring of earnest faces.
4. He remembered those earnest eyes, that lovely face, her delicate form.
5. Fogg talked about was not really in good earnest, and whether his fate was not in truth forcing him, despite his love of repose, around the world in eighty days!
6. We now worked in earnest, and never did I pass ten minutes of more intense excitement.
7. Some minutes later, a smoking candle from her desk on the uneven floor, she was searching in earnest, determined to find its secret.
8. I stared a question and, for once, Lisa appeared completely in earnest.
9. In the contemplation of the heavenly bodies it struck me forcibly that I could not distinguish a star with nearly as much precision, when I gazed on it with earnest, direct and undeviating attention, as when I suffered my eye only to glance in its vicinity alone.
10. With hindsight, removing tyrants and dictators appears to be an earnest strategy, which democracies continue to advocate and enforce when it suits, but behind the rhetoric is a lesson still unlearned.