Sentence examples for is avid from inspiring English sources

A group of traditional midwives is avid for hands-on training.

His look at tradition is avid, thorough, and harsh; he can't take his eyes off the wreckage that its wonders give rise to.

But he agreed that there is avid interest in the ingredients on a shampoo bottle, noting that his group maintains a product safety database that has received hundreds of millions of page views.

Mr. Temkin, by contrast, is avid about labor and social issues, history and government, and delayed what he now says was an all-but-inevitable decision until he had carefully considered the Republican opposition.

There is something about the approach of a good fight that renders the spirit insensitive to annoyance; it is only when the amateur of the Sweet Science has some doubts as to how good the main bout will turn out to be that he is avid for the satisfaction to be had from the preliminaries.

Another target of the campaign, Mr. Kiss said, is "avid fans," the ones who get "goose bumps" watching footage of the home-run slugger Hank Aaron "when he was 25" or an "electric" feeling when they attend a World Series game.

Both were avid kiteboarders.

These are avid travelers.

We are avid readers.

They're avid learners.

Their children are avid skiers.