Sentence examples for were in earnest from inspiring English sources
were in earnest about ending the war.
But they were in earnest, too, about dedicating themselves to a life of service.
Maybe the negotiators – Harriet Harman, Ed Balls and Ed Miliband – were in earnest, as certainly Lords Adonis and Mandelson were.
That sort of remark would be repeated in London, and would once more make His Majesty's Government wonder what further steps they could take to convince Herr Hitler that they were in earnest.
United were in earnest and Ferguson demonstrated the fact by keeping his word and sending out a strong line-up against Athletic in the last 16, but each match was still lost.
Michael Waller, the state's attorney for Lake County, Ill., and a member of the commission who supports capital punishment, said that the reform efforts of the panelists were in earnest.
It was loud, it was in earnest, it was heartfelt.
Yet, for all his playfulness, Mr Tesson is in earnest.
The majority are in earnest about this separation".
