How to Use avidity in a Sentence

avidity

noun

• It’s near a golf course—a plus given Jake's avidity for golf.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 21 June 2018
• The avidity that Ronan brings to the part is shattering.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020
• To judge by the children's degree of avidity, spinning gourds must have been the Angry Birds of the 19th century.
  — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 26 Nov. 2012
• Rory’s mouth was shiny with grease and Eustace had his face down almost on the plate, the pair savaging at their food with the shameless avidity of children.
  — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• The extraordinary avidity of the people kept up the delusion; and the higher the price of Indian and Mississippi stock, the more billets de banque were issued to keep pace with it.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 1 Sep. 2020
• To the role of Bonnie Parker, Dunaway brought the combination of avidity, glamour, and sheer presence that would become her trademarks.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• The avidity with which consumers snatched up even poor-quality CD reissues was a revelation: proof that catalogs could be cash cows.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2019
• During the weeks before the opening, the international press gossips about the contestants with the same avidity that film critics devote to the Academy Awards.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
• What Public Enemy was able to do with their third album was create a heavy project that channeled upstanding anger and incandescent avidity.
  — Mark Elibert, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2018
• In fact, these molecules aren’t terribly choosy: Each BMP dimer may stick to several different pairs of receptor subunits with varying degrees of avidity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
• Yet this same avidity also means that if public opinion shifts significantly towards republicanism, vote-hungry politicians will be the first to jump on that tumbrel.
  — Catherine Mayer, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• Mutations may also increase the avidity of the spike protein for the receptor or stabilize the spike, increasing infectivity.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
• Liberal sentiment was no hindrance to his avidity for sensation.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
• Plenty of professional athletes harbor deep avidity for vino.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• But instead of vindicating Mr. Rockefeller’s avidity for banking abroad, those figures underlined Chase’s lagging performance at home.
  — Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2017
• All the characteristic Winogrand elements are to be found: energy, surprise, voraciousness, avidity, dauntlessness, wit, alertness, muscularity, gusto, slyness, insolence, stunned wonder (that especially).
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024