Sentence examples for remained avid from inspiring English sources

But the Chinese remained avid gamblers, and gambling continued in Macao, a Portuguese colony an hour by ferry from Hong Kong.

Now 60, both remain avid athletes.

Still, the majority of cardiologists remain avid fans of marathons.

She would always remain avid for the chocolate and tobacco that accompanied her rescue by English soldiers in 1945.

The English remain avid fans of French cooking, and France repays the compliment by supplying them with a continuously renewed brigade of culinary talent.

Germans remain avid readers, and the country's newspapers and magazines suffered less than their counterparts elsewhere during the global economic crisis.

Despite the industry's fragility, the French remain avid consumers, usually eating them raw with lemon juice or shallot-infused vinegar and a glass of white wine.

Despite military rule, the Burmese remain avid consumers of news -- I see numerous people holding transistor radios to their ears -- and dispensers of gossip.

They remain avid theatre-goers, even in the provinces, and despite the obliging efforts of TV Nova to supply lowbrow fare enthusiasts for opera and classical music, for which tickets are still partly state-subsidised.

Across the country, Mr. Riggio said, senior citizens and college graduates remain avid readers; he also said book-buying for children is the fastest-growing segment of his company's business.

MS. LOHAN began her public career as someone who was spunky and adorable, but at some point she became the other kind of celebrity: not the ones we envy and pretend to intimacy with, but the ones we cringe from even as we remain avid for the latest dirt, which causes the paparazzi to hound them more relentlessly.