How to Use earnestly in a Sentence

earnestly

adverb

• Those were the days when the All-Star Game had some meaning as each league tried earnestly to win the game.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
• To get them back on track, the teacher asks them earnestly what mariachi means to them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• To get them back on track, the teacher asks them earnestly what mariachi means to them.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
• Its attendees would respond earnestly to this pulse for much of the evening.
  — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 20 Feb. 2023
• Second, Ellis has taken a game of hide and seek a little too earnestly, and no one can find her.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2022
• My faith and beliefs — while earnestly and deeply held — should not be a legal basis for the choices of others.
  — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
• This also does a disservice to those who are earnestly trying to learn more about birds.
  — USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
• Khalid Itum worked earnestly and honestly for MoviePass.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
• But the video – simply shot, on a bench in front of a spray of spring foliage – showed Kate earnestly sharing her story on her own terms and in her own words.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
• Only by recognizing the most acute pain points can the city move earnestly to do something about them.
  — Jennifer Jones Austin, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2024
• In one corner, a group of teenage boys wearing glittery eye shadow clasped their hands in prayer and asked, earnestly, to be taken to church.
  — Regine Cabato, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• No one in her family knew the identity of the young man gazing earnestly into the camera.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• The Megan rapper earnestly accepted the apology, even going as far as to place her hands over her heart.
  — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 2 July 2024
• Feeding off that, the Panthers pushed back earnestly but couldn’t get anything past Hill in the penalty-free first period.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
• The man then goes back to talking earnestly about the amusement park’s food options before Varitek interrupts him.
  — John Waller, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
• For some, Anne Hathaway will always be the Princess of Genovia, earnestly searching for meaning and truth as her life is turned upside down.
  — Chris Bellamy and Stephanie Kaloi, EW.com, 2 May 2024
• The two actors who originated the roles in London and on Broadway came to the big screen in a film that is superbly acted and earnestly detailed.
  — Robert English, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2023
• Evening skies should stay fairly clear until clouds move in more earnestly after midnight.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• This is why sellers earnestly pitching their own products can do to such great effect through TikTok videos.
  — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• To be beset by major problems and denied the right to talk earnestly about them is at the heart of much that has gone wrong in American public life in recent years.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• On the lawns, where the music roams free along with its listeners, every rule feels relaxed and thus more earnestly respected.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
• And so, the audience for this book for me is people who are sincerely and earnestly trying to transform the world and also themselves.
  — Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• Eras asks us to set aside our cynicism and spend four hours earnestly enjoying ourselves.
  — Hannah Summerhill, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2023
• But given that all of Ithaca’s stores, all unionized, have been shut down within a year, the actions seem more than simply earnestly strategic.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 9 May 2023
• Hugh Freeze hasn’t hesitated to earnestly critique his team or point out its deficiencies in his first spring on the Plains.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 30 Mar. 2023
• In the trailer, Lily-Rose Depp, playing a devout young woman, prays earnestly by candlelight.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
• But Warner, who often talks earnestly about his pursuit of perfection, hasn’t done less.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Nov. 2021
• There was something reassuring, and almost touching, about seeing him there, in a tux, earnestly trying to charm a room full of strangers.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
• As the year progressed, Janet and her sons talked more earnestly about permanently changing the model of Hollywood East.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
• The candidates earnestly presented their views on salaries, health care, education, trade, farming, Russia and other policies.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024