How to Use ardor in a Sentence

ardor

noun

• His ardor for long walks in the woods, driving the deer ahead of the hunters, is gone.
  — Lee Bergquist and Bob Riepenhoff, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2017
• When his ardor flagged, the nymph’s task was to rekindle it.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• But this duo’s ardor burns clean and cool, like a Sobranie, and Kulig is the flint.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 May 2018
• And their ardor has only seemed to grow since his loss.
  — Mary L. Trump, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
• This poem ached to swoon at the skill and ardor laid at her passerine feet.
  — Laura Reece Hogan, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• What struck me most about that day was the ardor that surrounded it.
  — Seth Green, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2019
• His body was warm for Lucy Taylor with all the ardor of a new affair.
  — Zora Neale Hurston, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• But any non-cynic can’t help but be swept up in its doomed ardor.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
• But the ardor of the support for the local team remains as strong as ever.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2022
• Baritone Nathan Gunn brings hearty ardor to the role of Sid Taylor.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 18 June 2021
• For the bomber, the drive for vengeance, the need to correct what’s amiss in the world, had likely assumed a religious ardor.
  — Michael Cannell, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• At the center of the stage is a bed, at first a scene of Yerma and Juan’s ardor but soon a grim reminder of where the trouble is.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• Musk’s ardor for Twitter faded weeks after the deal was agreed, in the wake of a broad selloff on the stock market.
  — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2022
• In Sicily, which claims St. Joseph as its patron saint, the day is met with genuine ardor.
  — Domenica Marchetti, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The same desire, an ardor akin to Ahab’s, animates them all.
  — David Dobbs, WIRED, 6 June 2013
• Such ardor belies the brutal struggle in the Arco Minero.
  — Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• If romantic ardor has cooled, this is the perfect time to stoke the fires and prove your commitment.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2020
• Trump’s ardor for Greitens hasn’t taken hold with the GOP writ large.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 Feb. 2022
• But that never seemed to get him down or diminish his ardor for the next battle.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2018
• Even a truly tragic male perm couldn't dull their ardor.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• The lack of a podium spot didn’t diminish Chinese fans’ ardor for him.
  — Sha Hua, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• Now 21, his Bucks ardor has not waned despite living so far away.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2020
• Valentine's Day has come and gone, but that doesn't cool our ardor for great romance novels.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Feb. 2022
• His ardor for the natural world and the creatures in it still reaches and touches his readers.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Morrison’s spell in Boston was marked by equal parts dread and ardor.
  — James Sullivan, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr. 2018
• And what takes Cold War from chilly but beautiful to swirling, beating ardor is its use of music.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 May 2018
• Sachs frequently steps over the line and in his ardor for his subject and addiction to detail tells us more than most of us need to know.
  — Robert Gottlieb, New York Times, 27 June 2017
• The cash customers fanned to fever heat by the ardor and closeness of combat gave outlet to all kinds of riotous impulses.
  — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• His transformation of the tune — which quoted the first three notes but not much more — was very nearly Brahmsian in its ardors.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2017
• But if Trump’s ardor for tariffs cooled, he was never persuaded to change his mind.
  — Time, 7 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 9 May 2024