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"Earnest" in a Sentence (22 examples)
Are you in jest or in earnest?
The rain came down in earnest.
The rain is coming down in earnest.
It began raining in earnest.
It began to rain in earnest.
Mingle your joys sometimes with your earnest occupation.
Sam is earnest about his work.
You must set about your business in earnest.
Are you in earnest in saying so?
Our success, after all, is due to his earnest efforts.
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Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest.
That high All-Seer which I dallied with / Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head / And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.
1914, February 13, The Times, Obituary: Canon Augustus Jessopp He wrote well in a forcible, colloquial style, with the air of being tremendously in earnest, and full of knowledge which overflowed his pages, tricked out with somewhat boisterous illustrations.
Let's prove among ourselves our armes in jest, That when we come to earnest them with men, We may them better use.
earnest prayers
earnest attention
an earnest disposition
earnest efforts
Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
As therefore the morning devv, is a pavvne of the evenings fatneſſe, ſo, O Lord, let this daies comfort be the earneſt of to morrowes, […]
The vanity is at once encouraged and gratified; while the present small triumph is too readily taken as earnest for a greater one.
But if all this was viewed by Gladstone and the Cabinet as an earnest of St Petersburg's future good intentions in Central Asia, then disillusionment was soon to follow.
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