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How to use fervor in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Fervor means an intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor. Example: “The coach trains his water polo team with fervor.”

Examples of fervor by meaning

nounAn intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.

  • The coach trains his water polo team with fervor.

More sentences with fervor

  • The zealots glowed with religious fervor.From the entry glow
  • Unable to contain his excitement, Foyʼs voice rose two octaves and took on a Hitlerian fervor.2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 217. From the entry Hitlerian
  • Even the hardcore Toriphiles didn't seem to embrace Strange Little Girls with their normal fervor.2006, Jay S. Jacobs, Pretty Good Years: A Biography of Tori Amos, Hal Leonard Corporation, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry Toriphile
  • He looked over his shoulder at Janice, bloodless face alight with faith and fervor.2005, Mary Jo Putney, MaryJanice Davidson, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Patricia Rice, Susan Grant, Gena Showalter, PC Cast, Alesia Holliday…. From the entry beastkeeper
  • The trend was reversed, finally, after the sleddog fervor spread to the lower forty-eight states.2002, David J. Marcou, Barbara A. Pauls, America's heartland remembers. From the entry sleddog
  • Does it surprise anyone else at the fervor of anti-rowing sentiment at many colleges and schools?1998 September 12, Andy Anderson, “Ask Doctor Rowing: Are Men and Women Different?”, in Independent Rowing News, volume 5, number 15…. From the entry antibaseball
  • Some people believe with great fervor preposterous things that just happen to coincide with their self-interest.Coleman v. Commissioner, 791 F.2d 68, 69 (7th Cir. 1986). From the entry tax protester
  • Is it the twice-born Baptist who can preach love and compassion with true fervor?1976, Marquis Childs, “Glimpses of The Real Carter”, in The Washington Post. From the entry will the real someone please stand up
  • All this fervor may seem totally out of touch.2024 February 8, Carter Sherman, “Could Taylor Swift really swing the 2024 presidential election?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry Wyomissing
  • Revolutionary fervor was applied to time itself.2010, Jeremy Keith, HTML 5 For Web Designers, page 9. From the entry decimal time
  • And there's a lot of anticorporate fervor, anti-pharmaceutical company fervor.2009 January 13, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry anticorporate
  • Child-abuse scandals are prosecuted and misprosecuted with almost Salem-witch-trial fervor.2004, David Brooks, On Paradise Drive, page 137. From the entry misprosecute
  • People just don’t yearn with such literary fervor anymore.2003 October 19, Charles McGrath, “Film: Authors of Their Own Demise; Gwyneth’s Degree in Plathology”, in The New York Times, New York…. From the entry cell-phone
  • News of the cheese provoked similar reactions from other Federalists, whose sharp pronouncements mirrored the fervor with which Republicans praised Leland's gesture.2016, Robert M. S. McDonald, Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own Time, →ISBN. From the entry cheesen
  • Sherlock-the-character has a fanatic following, with fans who debate every Cumberbatchian movement and every plot twist with the fervor of grassy-knoll conspiracy buffs.2014 March 7, Karim Sadli, “The Case of the Accidental Superstar”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine. From the entry Cumberbatchian
  • Those who gesture with revolutionary fervor toward a postgender or post-binary or post-male-dominated world cannot, as the old saw has it, get there from here.2010, Alice Adams, Shameless propositions: women's sexuality and theoretical authority, page 139. From the entry postgender
  • Meredith's view, this: The machinations behind the making of South Africa would create patriotic fervors even worse than the ones they supplanted.2007 November 29, Janet Maslin, “A Scramble for Power and Treasure in South Africa”, in New York Times. From the entry archimperialist
  • Why is the wildest, willfullest daydream (which may be quite banal) no less than the most naive and flabby documentary welcomed, sometimes, with equal fervor?1967, Parker Tyler, “Is Film Criticism Only Propaganda?”, in Gregory Battcock, editor, The New American Cinema: A Critical Anthology, New…. From the entry willful
  • Did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of US lexicography reveals ideological strife and controversy and intrigue and nastiness and fervor on a near-Lewinskian scale?2012, David Foster Wallace, Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments, page xxvi. From the entry Lewinskian
  • Those who have seen Ruth make the "old college try" understand that some professionals play with a spiritual fervor which is supposed to be the amateur's prerogative.1929, Munsey's Magazine, volume 96, number 3, page 355. From the entry old college try

Meaning of fervor

  1. noun An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
  2. noun A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
  3. noun Heat.

Full definition of fervor

Questions about fervor in a sentence

How do you use fervor in a sentence?
Fervor is used as a noun. For example: “The coach trains his water polo team with fervor.”
What is a short sentence with fervor?
“The zealots glowed with religious fervor.”
What does fervor mean?
Fervor means an intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fervor (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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