How to Use ardent in a Sentence

ardent

adjective
  • Of course, that’s a debatable contention and one that doesn’t sit well with the ardent simulationists.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • But after decades of ardent fire suppression, such natural fires are now burning on unnatural landscapes.
    Anton L. Delgado, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Suddenly, the most compelling talking point for ardent UFO believers was firmly in the mainstream.
    Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2021
  • The latest offering by the Trump political operation is a plastic wallet card that can be purchased by his ardent supporters.
    Michael D'antonio, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021
  • He's been an ardent supporter of presidential candidate Donald Trump.
    Bryan West, USA TODAY, 22 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
  • Of course, even the most ardent of sellers at the trade deadline — as the Tigers have been for nearly a decade — are buyers, of sorts.
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2024
  • His most ardent supporters can vote in no more than three of those six fields.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 29 Dec. 2021
  • At the same time, Ireland has long been one of the world’s most ardent champions of the Palestinian cause.
    Marisa Bellack, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • They were either chased away by the brief but ardent rainstorm at the start of the fourth quarter, or were dressed in Utah red, or both.
    Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Many Trump voters are ardent public fans and have no reservations about declaring their support.
    Stephen Pastis, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Five years later, McGarvey took the podium at a convention of the building-trades unions and offered up half an hour of ardent love for the Biden Administration.
    Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024

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