How to Use zeal in a Sentence

zeal

noun
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  • Roots bona fides, goosed with rock zeal and a chip on the shoulder.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 20 June 2022
  • Za’Darius Smith didn’t hide his zeal to play his former team.
    — Ryan Wood, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
  • And, to be fair, few directors can draw with such zeal from the deep well of the uncanny.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The actor hopes to extend this zeal into her film projects as well.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 June 2023
  • The zeal, though, can go too far—especially among those at wit’s end.
    — Abigail Gruskin, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • There’s a lot of zeal, debate, and confusion about NFTs right now, and for good reason.
    — Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 20 July 2022
  • Jon Stewart returns to ‘The Daily Show’ with his trademark zeal and wit.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • But the novelty of seeing Big Stars up close wore off fast, along with my zeal about breakfast.
    — Time, 21 Aug. 2023
  • His zeal for hitting has led him to be impatient and undisciplined at the plate at times.
    — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began with hubris and a zeal to reshape the world order.
    — Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The zeal that drove the pioneers across the continent would be exhausted.
    — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Indeed, the zeal of the protesters in April and May of that year led to a climactic legal battle.
    — Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Many Web3 founders approach their work with a missionary-type zeal.
    — Alex Tapscott, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The Giulia pulls away from stoplights with zeal while singing soaring Italian arias.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The young musicians played with an earnest zest that led to exuberant zeal.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • The chaplain approaches his Fort Benning lectures with the zeal of a preacher.
    — Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2022
  • But his zeal these days seems to be on national politics.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • All Stars, Kobabe has the look of a skateboarder and the zeal of a naturalist who can riff on gopher snakes and the swiftness of spiders.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • As one of London's first nightclubs, Annabel's was determined to lead the efforts of injecting a new zeal into the city.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 12 June 2023
  • The 2023 Oscar nominations are in, and movie fans are appraising the list with their usual zeal.
    — Holly Thomas, CNN, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Then Biden became president, and Shaffer lost his zeal for Joe.
    — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Their deployments lack the ideological zeal of the foreign legionaries who flocked to Ukraine in the early months of the war.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The bad news is that the ban does not appear to have dampened Texas’s zeal for discriminating against gay and trans residents.
    — Lindsay Beyerstein, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • As the sport continues its upward trajectory, the United States stands on the brink of a new era of Formula 1 zeal.
    — Kyle Russell, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But that’s part of the passionate, almost religious zeal around mushrooms these days.
    — Jeanette Marantosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • None has matched his zeal for exposing listeners to the many great musicians, past and present, who have inspired him.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2023
  • But the zeal dampens when the pollsters ask more detailed questions about the people’s willingness to make lifestyle changes or spend a lot of money.
    — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2023
  • But the zeal dampens when the pollsters ask more detailed questions about the people's willingness to make lifestyle changes or spend a lot of money.
    — Anthony Faiola, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Walmart, a company ruled by a zeal for low prices, opened a procurement center in the boomtown of Shenzhen.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Yet the zeal and speed of his defenestration should give us some discomfort.
    — David Thomas, National Review, 15 Mar. 2022

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