How to Use zeal in a Sentence
zeal
noun-
The new zeal for backyard flocks comes at a good time here.
— Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 5 Apr. 2020 -
Roots bona fides, goosed with rock zeal and a chip on the shoulder.
— Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 20 June 2022 -
Still, Raul’s point is valid: A lot of coin buyers’ zeal comes down to faith.
— Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 7 Aug. 2020 -
Such zeal can lead us to act in ways than are less than godly.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021 -
Za’Darius Smith didn’t hide his zeal to play his former team.
— Ryan Wood, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022 -
While the high-fives and group hugs are on hold, the zeal of the players and coaches both is unrestrained.
— David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 12 June 2020 -
And, to be fair, few directors can draw with such zeal from the deep well of the uncanny.
— The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022 -
If Texas now has to settle for Plan B, will the zeal and the dollars be there for someone else?
— Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2020 -
Kauanui said Smith’s zeal rubbed other students the wrong way.
— New York Times, 25 May 2021 -
The actor hopes to extend this zeal into her film projects as well.
— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 June 2023 -
In its zeal to build, China has backed projects that the U.S. wisely avoided long ago.
— Jonathan E. Hillman, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020 -
Clorox’s future will be brighter if some of the zeal for deep cleaning persists.
— Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 May 2021 -
In today’s edition: Vance is just Trump with even more zeal.
— Drew Goins, Washington Post, 16 July 2024 -
Still others have sought to prove their zeal by hurling Maoist-era abuse.
— The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021 -
Vance, by contrast, sounds like a true believer with the zeal of a convert.
— Max Boot, Washington Post, 5 July 2024 -
After all, a zeal of zebras wouldn’t be the weirdest thing found in Maryland.
— Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021 -
The zeal, though, can go too far—especially among those at wit’s end.
— Abigail Gruskin, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022 -
In their zeal to beat Trump, will Lincoln Project members also help to take down Cornyn?
— Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2020 -
There’s no one event that can explain the surge, apart from a wave of speculative zeal.
— David Meyer, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2020 -
There’s a lot of zeal, debate, and confusion about NFTs right now, and for good reason.
— Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 20 July 2022 -
Most who sink in the glacial silt are successfully rescued, but the survival rate says more about the skill and zeal of the rescuers.
— David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2020 -
Odom had 19 points and three steals in 21 minutes, all accomplished with a child-like zeal that kept Xavier fans on their feet and yelling.
— Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 19 Dec. 2021 -
Jon Stewart returns to ‘The Daily Show’ with his trademark zeal and wit.
— Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024 -
The purpose for the rules is getting lost in the anti-doping movement’s zeal to enforce them.
— Ken Goe, oregonlive, 2 July 2021 -
That, too, may have diminished their zeal to find work, Levanon says.
— Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 23 Oct. 2020 -
But the novelty of seeing Big Stars up close wore off fast, along with my zeal about breakfast.
— Time, 21 Aug. 2023 -
Hong Kong’s freewheeling media has been among the targets of this zeal.
— Suzanne Sataline, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2021 -
His zeal for hitting has led him to be impatient and undisciplined at the plate at times.
— Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023 -
Many blamed Biden’s antitrust zeal with helping slowdown M&A.
— Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2024 -
But that zeal for lavishing cash did not carry over to the school’s athletic department, which ranked fourth from the bottom of the conference with just $16 million in donations over the same period.
— Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
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