fervency

Example Sentences

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Much later, Corniel’s sister told her that after witnessing the fervency of that prayer, she knew that Corniel was going to eventually make it out on the other side.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

Scores of university students on Wednesday marched to the parliamentary chambers in the capital, Kampala, to thank lawmakers for enacting the bill, underscoring the fervency of the bill’s supporters.

From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2023

“Hugh! Hugh! STOP!” the people with the flashbulbs scream, with such fervency you’d think they were trying to stop him from stepping in front of a bus.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2023

Perhaps it is the manner of Cantelli’s death, the waste of it, that explains some of the fervency of interest that has come to surround him.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022

His Chopin-playing always impressed me as dry, and his Beethoven interpretations lacked warmth and fervency.

From Memories of a Musical Life by Mason, William