How to Use ardent in a Sentence

ardent

adjective
  • Pharrell Williams, an ardent Kraftwerk fan, inducted the band with a video tribute.
    Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2021
  • And the safety experts and competitors who try to warn about the dangers of his approach will likely be drowned out or dismissed by his most ardent fans.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Or in the rightness of his ardent inner circle—Cherkassky, Rengarten, Dovkont.
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 12 Oct. 2021
  • At the heart of the Rams’ drastic rebuild lies an ardent commitment to the team and to each other, which has translated into swift success.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Gucciardi has always been an ardent advocate for women.
    courant.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • For me, this has solidified an ardent belief that global hits will increasingly come from non-Anglo markets.
    Dan Rys, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Arguably no sci-fi writer has the specific combination of vision, reach, and ardent fandom that Stephenson does.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Also into reformist politics, which are bubbling up all over ancien-régime Russia: secret meetings, ardent manifestos.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2021
  • But without those other fan reactions bubbling ahead of its release allowing that more positive word of mouth to take over, the most ardent and dedicated fanboys wound up tuning it out completely.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024
  • And, contrary to the hopes of her ardent fans, that won't change this year.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2017
  • At 340 pounds and an ardent weightlifter, Pierce has the size and strength of a run-stopper.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 29 Mar. 2020
  • Fans have marveled at the fact that the man who took on Bush is now one of Trump’s most ardent fans.
    Nadra Nittle, Vox, 3 Oct. 2018
  • At the time the book was written, most of Blake's life, and his death, were a mystery, even to ardent blues fans.
    Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The ant that now bears the group’s name is as unique as the band itself, whose most ardent fans insist is the best band in the world.
    Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The idea is to put some of the brand’s most in-demand timepieces into the hands of some of its most ardent fans.
    Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024
  • That is too big an ask of all but the most ardent Putin apologists.
    James Nixey, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • But the plan found the most ardent supporters in Cleveland.
    Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2019
  • But the point is that his ardent pursuit is in no way sincere.
    Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 30 July 2017
  • Since then there has been enough legal back-and-forth to bore the most ardent plane-spotter.
    The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Live science, in fact, is what Hilton is most ardent about.
    Harriet Howard Heithaus, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The lack of progress has worn down even food safety’s most ardent activists.
    Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Alfa Romeo does have its ardent fans in the United States.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
  • At the center of it all, Mehren, now in his 80s, is ardent and affable.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2022
  • Even the most ardent baseball fan will want to skip over parts of this book, but don’t skip too quickly.
    Paul Dickson, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
  • That seems to have struck a chord with fans, many of whom (like Barr) are ardent Trump supporters.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 22 June 2018
  • Kid Rock has been an ardent Trump supporter over the years.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 8 June 2022
  • The case ends the career of one of Trump’s most ardent early supporters.
    Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Yet even the most ardent fan rarely knows much about kicking itself.
    Wil S. Hylton, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Some of the book’s most ardent passages concern Jenlena’s refusal to give up on men, even if misandry is in vogue.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Safety was foremost on the minds of ardent Trump supporters who flocked to the Butler Farm Show grounds to hear the former president.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024

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