How to Use zeal in a Sentence

zeal

noun

• Roots bona fides, goosed with rock zeal and a chip on the shoulder.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 20 June 2022
• Still, Raul’s point is valid: A lot of coin buyers’ zeal comes down to faith.
  — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• Such zeal can lead us to act in ways than are less than godly.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
• Za’Darius Smith didn’t hide his zeal to play his former team.
  — Ryan Wood, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
• And, to be fair, few directors can draw with such zeal from the deep well of the uncanny.
  — The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022
• If Texas now has to settle for Plan B, will the zeal and the dollars be there for someone else?
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2020
• Kauanui said Smith’s zeal rubbed other students the wrong way.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2021
• The actor hopes to extend this zeal into her film projects as well.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 June 2023
• In its zeal to build, China has backed projects that the U.S. wisely avoided long ago.
  — Jonathan E. Hillman, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• Clorox’s future will be brighter if some of the zeal for deep cleaning persists.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 May 2021
• In today’s edition: Vance is just Trump with even more zeal.
  — Drew Goins, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
• Still others have sought to prove their zeal by hurling Maoist-era abuse.
  — The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021
• Vance, by contrast, sounds like a true believer with the zeal of a convert.
  — Max Boot, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• After all, a zeal of zebras wouldn’t be the weirdest thing found in Maryland.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
• The zeal, though, can go too far—especially among those at wit’s end.
  — Abigail Gruskin, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
• In their zeal to beat Trump, will Lincoln Project members also help to take down Cornyn?
  — Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2020
• There’s no one event that can explain the surge, apart from a wave of speculative zeal.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2020
• There’s a lot of zeal, debate, and confusion about NFTs right now, and for good reason.
  — Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 20 July 2022
• Odom had 19 points and three steals in 21 minutes, all accomplished with a child-like zeal that kept Xavier fans on their feet and yelling.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 19 Dec. 2021
• Jon Stewart returns to ‘The Daily Show’ with his trademark zeal and wit.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The purpose for the rules is getting lost in the anti-doping movement’s zeal to enforce them.
  — Ken Goe, oregonlive, 2 July 2021
• That, too, may have diminished their zeal to find work, Levanon says.
  — Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• But the novelty of seeing Big Stars up close wore off fast, along with my zeal about breakfast.
  — Time, 21 Aug. 2023
• Hong Kong’s freewheeling media has been among the targets of this zeal.
  — Suzanne Sataline, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2021
• His zeal for hitting has led him to be impatient and undisciplined at the plate at times.
  — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began with hubris and a zeal to reshape the world order.
  — Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
• The couple has two daughters and a son who are accustomed to their mother’s zeal.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• The zeal that drove the pioneers across the continent would be exhausted.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
• The scandal has rocked the city-state, known for its zeal for clean governance, with Iswaran having become the first former minister to be sentenced to prison in almost half a century.
  — Low De Wei and Bernadette Toh / Bloomberg, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
• This amorality becomes the basis of Baker’s progressive zeal and social criticism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024