Sentence examples for to earnest from inspiring English sources
adjective
Serious in speech or action; eager; urgent; importunate; pressing; instant.
T., however, is partial to Earnest Sewn jeans.
Kristof is no stranger to earnest "social good" trolling.
"How are you doing?" has moved from casual phrase to earnest inquiry.
Of golf's four majors, the British Open always seems the most resistant to earnest prognostication.
Indeed, his mission here at times seems more akin to earnest undergraduate crusading than Tinseltown dishing.
Pete Francis Heimbold, whose songs veer closer (double uh-oh) to earnest rock, said, "This is hard to believe".
She can bounce effortlessly from elegiac memory play to backstage comedy, from naughty satire to earnest polemic.
It seems now it has to be earnest to be good.
He began to talk in earnest to family members; to absorb their details like a novelist.
Driven by the promise of an estimated $300 to $450 billion a year [ 35], companies of all sizes are beginning to fight in earnest to capture and tame the data explosion.
To be really successful you have to be "earnest".
