Sentence examples for earnestly do from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

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

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.

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.

Such sanctions – however earnestly evolved – don't ensure a free press.

Sometimes it's hard to believe such people actually exist, but one of our managers recently mentioned that his daughter, a student at a local college and a first-time voter, asked him, earnestly, "How do you decide who to vote for?" For those of us who decided long ago, it seems staggeringly obvious which lever to pull.

Below him, many others pledged earnestly to do all of their shopping at Sears until the store decided to remain open.