How to Use in earnest in a Sentence

in earnest

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  • Sometime around 2015, Monique’s life fell apart in earnest.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2023
  • To watch in the coming days: Earnings season kicks off in earnest this week.
    Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2024
  • But this year, work on the initiative resumed in earnest.
    Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2023
  • When the team reports for training camp in July, the battle for roster spots and the No. 1 role will heat up in earnest.
    Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2023
  • But before that Job-like tale could begin in earnest, Patel had to get his feet wet.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Oregon’s search for a new starting punter has begun in earnest.
    oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The first-quarter earnings season kicks off in earnest next week with a slew of reports from banks on April 14.
    Hannah Miao, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The effort to collect legal fees from Trump began in earnest more than two years ago.
    Maggie Haberman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Those cars began to hit three or four years old last year, and the volume will be arriving in earnest this year and next.
    James Morris, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • As the sport began to evolve in earnest in the next century and resorts opened around the world, ski design also changed.
    Brigid Mander, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Even now, and is likely to gain greater momentum as offices (at least some of them) fill up in earnest.
    Byjane Thier, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The labor market has remained strong despite the Fed’s rate hikes, which began in earnest back in March 2022.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2024
  • With the search over, demolition work was starting in earnest.
    John Peragine, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • March Madness gets underway in earnest with a weekend’s worth of matchups.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The Panthers coaching search is expected to begin in earnest in the coming weeks.
    Steve Reed, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Now that the coronation is out of the way, Charles can get on with the business of beginning his reign in earnest, however that looks in 2023.
    Sarah Lyall, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2023
  • Which is why, in your third year on Earth, more people began talking in earnest about figuring out a way to turn down the sun.
    Bill Weir, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The videos offered some guidance, but there will be plenty to be learned as spring practices begin in earnest in the coming weeks.
    Elliott Teaford, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2024
  • That process began in earnest this spring, with the oldest models selected for the boneyard.
    Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
  • That process began in earnest this spring, with the oldest models selected for the boneyard.
    Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
  • The campaign against Kiwi Farms began in earnest last summer.
    Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Then the fight begins in earnest, and several white people begin hitting the Black man.
    Shannon Heupel, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
  • While some theories were posited in jest, others appeared to be shared in earnest.
    Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The new head coach has been on the job for close to three months and the players have been back in the building in earnest for almost a month, their first chance to work with their new boss on a day-to-day basis.
    The Indianapolis Star, 5 May 2023
  • Amazon’s Prime Day sales event kicks off tomorrow in earnest, though deals have been piling on early for well over a week.
    Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 10 July 2023
  • Nevins left in October, before the Showtime shakeup hit in earnest.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 Feb. 2023
  • As the legislative session began in earnest, Sanders quickly bent the state government to her will.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
  • Catena first started studying the soils in earnest over a decade ago, with an average of five pits dug per hectare to see what lies below the surface.
    Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Two months into the year, that still appears to be the case, though the executive has said mass production won’t start in earnest until 2024.
    Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Later that day, the search for the missing Titan—and more specifically, the five people on board the 22-foot-long vessel—began in earnest.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023

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