Sentence examples for earnestly did from inspiring English sources

What, he asked earnestly, did I think the secret of a good party was?I thought it over as I chewed my smoked chicken.

It's not that New Deal-era Republicans didn't believe what they were saying about the end of liberty; many earnestly did.

So earnestly did Ms. Pitt continue to inhabit her screen persona that she was known on occasion to bite the necks of interviewers — not enough to draw blood but enough for dramatic impact.

He paused for a second and then asked, earnestly, "Does my English" stink?

Then the Afghan asked earnestly, "Do you trust him?" The others murmured that they wondered the same thing.

"They're looking a little oily," one cook frets in Round 1, while another, dismayed at what has happened in the deep fryer, says earnestly, "Don't want to serve the judges raw doughnuts".

Reality check: When you let a slacker slide, whether it be in a corporation, a volunteer organization or even a family, the people who are earnestly doing their best to meet the standards resent you for it.

She got to one dish that had a rice component and looked up and me and asked most earnestly, 'Do people like rice?'". 3. Back to the music mag: one week, a special insert didn't arrive in time for publication.

They asked earnestly: What did it feel like?

The Riesters, though earnestly obedient, did not understand why the two groups were discouraged from fraternizing; why, for example, the priests and brothers had separate recreation rooms.

The best example of this was when we were discussing a popular book and she earnestly asked, "Did you think that was a good book?" I said, "Well, yes," before Nora came back, sharply, with "It wasn't".