How to Use ardor in a Sentence

ardor

noun
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  • His ardor for long walks in the woods, driving the deer ahead of the hunters, is gone.
    — Lee Bergquist and Bob Riepenhoff, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2017
  • And their ardor has only seemed to grow since his loss.
    — Mary L. Trump, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • When his ardor flagged, the nymph’s task was to rekindle it.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • This poem ached to swoon at the skill and ardor laid at her passerine feet.
    — Laura Reece Hogan, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • What struck me most about that day was the ardor that surrounded it.
    — Seth Green, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2019
  • But the ardor of the support for the local team remains as strong as ever.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2022
  • But any non-cynic can’t help but be swept up in its doomed ardor.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
  • But that never seemed to get him down or diminish his ardor for the next battle.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2018
  • His body was warm for Lucy Taylor with all the ardor of a new affair.
    — Zora Neale Hurston, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Even a truly tragic male perm couldn't dull their ardor.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2022
  • If romantic ardor has cooled, this is the perfect time to stoke the fires and prove your commitment.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2020
  • But this duo’s ardor burns clean and cool, like a Sobranie, and Kulig is the flint.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 May 2018
  • The cash customers fanned to fever heat by the ardor and closeness of combat gave outlet to all kinds of riotous impulses.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Sachs frequently steps over the line and in his ardor for his subject and addiction to detail tells us more than most of us need to know.
    — Robert Gottlieb, New York Times, 27 June 2017
  • Such ardor belies the brutal struggle in the Arco Minero.
    — Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • For the bomber, the drive for vengeance, the need to correct what’s amiss in the world, had likely assumed a religious ardor.
    — Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • Morrison’s spell in Boston was marked by equal parts dread and ardor.
    — James Sullivan, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Young designers have the energy and the ardor of youth, which is fantastic.
    — Carla Sozzani & Azzedine Alaïa, Town & Country, 7 Sep. 2017
  • And the very fact that that ardor remains so strong to this day is by itself enough to challenge that critical perception.
    — Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2019
  • Musk’s ardor for Twitter faded weeks after the deal was agreed, in the wake of a broad selloff on the stock market.
    — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The film’s sense of form is as thrilling and hectic as the revolutionary ardor that motivates it.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The lack of a podium spot didn’t diminish Chinese fans’ ardor for him.
    — Sha Hua, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The same desire, an ardor akin to Ahab’s, animates them all.
    — David Dobbs, WIRED, 6 June 2013
  • That last one just might be the most apt description, given our obvious ardor.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Apr. 2012
  • Baritone Nathan Gunn brings hearty ardor to the role of Sid Taylor.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 18 June 2021
  • At the center of the stage is a bed, at first a scene of Yerma and Juan’s ardor but soon a grim reminder of where the trouble is.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • There’s crooning ardor and a lot of electricity swirling in their version.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Those squealing daughters are now screaming moms — and their ardor hasn’t lessened.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2022
  • Valentine's Day has come and gone, but that doesn't cool our ardor for great romance novels.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • And what takes Cold War from chilly but beautiful to swirling, beating ardor is its use of music.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 May 2018

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