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Sentence Examples Once the action starts in earnest and the stunt doubles do their thing, the film is entertaining enough. And, overhead, the canopy of the oak tree is beginning to bud out in earnest. While he recovers, Gary's constant jealousy finally drives his wife Tess to cheat on him in earnest. The pain began in earnest a couple of days after the accident, when the numbing effects of adrenaline wore off. In the wake of independence, the process of Africanisation began in earnest. Within an hour and a half the tide had gone out again and the clean-up operation began in earnest. Oil under their feet changed their lifestyle in earnest from herding goats out in the desert to having the world at their feet. The company has announced that it will start developing rollable displays in earnest. Sun, traditionally a company that revolved around hardware, is now turning in earnest to architecture and software, he said. However, teaching in Assyriology did not begin in earnest until much later. Hopefully next week I will have many good reports of tailor and bream, maybe even blackfish, as the season is about to begin in earnest. Recently, the Park attracted teals even before it started raining in earnest. The children began in earnest by first drawing a neat margin on the chart paper they were provided with. With today's tiki tour safely over and done with, the heavy lifting starts in earnest for the team tomorrow with a morning gym session. A natural mesomorph, Huh weighed 200 pounds before he even picked up a barbell in earnest and his body responded well to weights. The Victorians really went to town on their Valentine cards, and the production of Valentine cards commenced in earnest in those times. I'm hoping my piano tutor book will arrive tomorrow, too, or the day after, and then I can begin work in earnest. Building has begun in earnest on the metal skeleton for the northern section of Manchester's new-look Arndale shopping centre. Sure enough, the sledging kicked off in earnest at Bristol in the first NatWest Series encounter between England and Australia. Rehearsals began in earnest in August and the first act is now nearing completion. Show More Sentences Their boxed lunches brought in enough money that Arthur could begin saving again in earnest. On Saturday they embark on the Smash Hits tour for three weeks before buckling down to rehearsing their Christmas gigs in earnest. The project will begin in earnest later this year, with three ethnographers tracking and videotaping one family every other week. His fall was so spectacular, so swift once it began in earnest, that watching the process became an object lesson in how not conduct oneself. Readying these soldiers for active duty is a tough mission that begins in earnest upon reporting to mobilization stations. The next venture was a jumble-sale which caught the imagination of so many and began the fund-raising in earnest. Persecution of the Iranian Stalinists in the Tudeh party and other oppositionist elements began in earnest. A noisy courtship begins in earnest in November, with squawking, prancing, and strutting. They stop doing this for the final chorus, then resume in earnest for the outro. Soon the hard work was to start in earnest, and in three years, he became national champion on the horizontal bar. He and Pat hit it off and Dave began studying natural horsemanship in earnest. The songs are washed in earnest clean rhythm guitar and nice, glimmering production. When the band finishes the stage is quickly cleared, and the club night starts in earnest. I paid scarce attention to them as the movie began in earnest, showing a cobwebbed crypt, bathed in silvery moonlight. In recent years the fabric of the building began to show signs of decay and in 1997 work began in earnest to rectify the damage. The veterans group and your people back home are planning the September ceremony in earnest. Kim Dae-jung's government made a ruthless decision, and carried out the plan in earnest. Frost, strong winds and heavy rain will take their toll on the show of leaves as winter sets in in earnest. If comparativism continues to gather momentum, as seems likely, Scalia's question may be taken up in earnest. This worldwide expansion, which began in earnest in the early 1970s, has not been without difficulties. Show More Sentences Fitness training and some less serious stuff will continue throughout the summer before training starts in earnest in July. Images of sun-kissed beaches wash over us as the travel agents' television advertising campaigns begin in earnest. That evening, a reception was held to meet other members of the party and the next morning the adventure began in earnest. We move on to Knightley and at first you think he can't be serious, but Sutherland is always in earnest, even when joking. He was speaking in the wake of growing concern by holidaymakers worried about what will happen when the conflict begins in earnest. Laurie, in her ecstatic state, executed a pirouette, and began to sing in earnest. A campaign has begun in earnest to persuade The Vatican to declare a former curate of Clonmore Parish Holy. He flexes his elbows in earnest to begin curling the weight at a moderate pace, under control. Her robust, earthy attractiveness roared back to life in earnest as she responded warmly to his embrace. The purpose of graduating from college is to take up your work in earnest, not goof off forever. Apart from the hundreds of claims pegged out by individual diggers, there were several claims being worked in earnest by companies. But when she heard that the artist was exhibiting on Merrion Square in Dublin on a recent Sunday, she made her way there in earnest. The surge of Chinese interest began in earnest following the Tiananmen Square massacre. I began reading it in earnest last summer, underlining and making notes in the margins. The police authorities of New York appear now to be thoroughly in earnest in carrying out the municipal enactments forbidding expectoration in public places. They sound like the kind of things a top-drawer handbell choir might make up before rehearsal starts in earnest, which shouldn't be a compliment but somehow is. As the countdown to Tullow Community School's reunion begins in earnest, it seems everyone is taking a trip down memory lane to rekindle their school days. The seizure of property began in earnest in 2003 after the arrest of the president of the Yukos oil company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. With that task accomplished, the Sami team can get to work on the task of galactic demographics in earnest. The Fur Trade began in earnest in medieval times in Europe, when it involved the hunting of European animals to stock the wardrobes of the nobility and royalty. Show More Sentences The inquiry begins in earnest as the first witnesses give evidence. In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud began to explore in earnest the similarities between neurotic behavior and ritual. After Queen Anne's death and the discontinuation of the Royal Touch by the Hanoverian monarchs in Britain, the practice continued in earnest in France. Tragically, Cary did not live to complete the second volume, and in 2000 I began work in earnest on this book. A chance gift of seeds from Captain James Mangles, horticulturalist, accompanied by the request to supply native specimens in return, prompted her to botanise in earnest. In the countdown to war, the aluminium tubes remained in the political spotlight and the fight between the US intelligence agencies was now on in earnest. In the past few weeks the blame game for the delay has begun in earnest. For a good few minutes the poor pigeon struggled with his measly prize, nibbling at it in earnest, each peck accidentally flinging it over his head and way behind him. With a sob of relief she began to cry in earnest against his shirt. This came to a head in 1979 when the violence really began in earnest. It was not until 1993 with the publication of Denis Sampson's Outstaring Nature's Eye that serious McGahern studies began in earnest. And with the 42 remaining tenants rehoused elsewhere, work will begin in earnest once a crane arrives in the coming days. The audiovisual wave, which began in earnest with the development of low-cost LCD projectors in the mid-1990s, continues to play out. While he finds these traditions start out in earnest, they develop into various forms of spiritual hucksterism in the 20th century. We now had no alternative but to resort to civil disobedience, and we embarked in earnest on preparations for mass action. He spoke in earnest of the importance of achieving academic excellence as well as winning football games. But I see that if I were to live in a wilderness I should again be tempted to become a fisher and hunter in earnest. As the idea for the story took shape and the writing began in earnest, Dickens became engrossed in the book. His career as a professional author now began in earnest, although he taught for another year. Day Four began in earnest with Michael Clarke and Simon Katich continuing their partnership from the previous day. Show More Sentences To what extent the suicide attempt had been made in earnest, likely will never be known, but it is suggestive of a situational depression. The efforts began in earnest again during the Renaissance, which saw a revival of the study of ancient Greek texts. The ability to store soft drinks for long periods of time began in earnest in 1892, with the invention of the crown cap. The chilling of the South Ocean deep water began in earnest once the Tasmanian Gateway and the Drake Passage opened fully. War began in earnest in spring 1940 with the successful Blitzkrieg conquests of Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries, and France. Immigration to the United States and Canada began in earnest in the 1870s, with most migrants initially settling in the Great Lakes area. After a new round of negotiations, a second date was set, and the elections process began in earnest. De Quincey was married in 1816, and soon after, having no money left, he took up literary work in earnest. Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest. Once airborne or airmobile forces reach the ground and dominate any opposing force, the work of the engineer begins in earnest. It appears Colletti's real first order of business, hiring a manager, won't begin in earnest until early next week. The battle for the maillot jaune will begin in earnest on tomorrow in the Pyrenees, following today's first rest day and transfer to Pau. By the time our waitress comes by to take our order, I am nodding my head in earnest to Badlands' personal recipe for gurgitory success. European colonization of the island began in earnest the following year, when 1,300 men arrived from Spain under the watch of Bartolomeo Columbus. There is a small handful of groups working in earnest on making Elon Musk's dream of a hyperloop a reality, but none are so high profile as Hyperloop Technologies. Sikh migration from British India began in earnest during the second half of the 19th century, when the British completed their annexation of the Punjab. Pound began work on The Cantos in earnest after relocating to Italy. The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest. While the new Library of Birmingham is surrounded by a stunning flower display, the old Brutalist library is coming down in earnest as diggers finally move in. A minority of scholars have taken the position that, in fact, Burke did write the Vindication in earnest, later disowning it only for political reasons. Show More Sentences Samuel was stern, serious and deeply in earnest. He seldom smiled and never laughed. He was uncompromisingly religious, conscientious and morally unbending. Manuscript production in England dropped off precipitously around the 860s when the Viking invasions began in earnest, not to be revived until the end of the century. Roman dam construction began in earnest in the early imperial period. The Premier League's free marketeers, bulk importers of foreign talent, must give us something to shout about as Europe's elite tournament kicks off in earnest this week. In 1990 work on this ambitious scheme began in earnest at Fosseway Lane. With Halloween treats and the odd witch's broom still sat in the bargain bin it's time for a new celebration and the build up seems to have started in earnest. In 2012 a better financial agreement between Catalonia and Spain was also refused, and a recentralisation of previously devolved powers began in earnest. Examples from Classical Literature I'd ha' married the girl in earnest, but for your threats to disinherit me. She looked at him searchingly, as if trying to see whether he spoke in earnest. He was too human, too much in earnest, to be anything but Amin the Faithful. He looked at me out of the angle of his eye to make sure that I was in earnest. But let us come in earnest to those who have really had an antipathy to wine. He accordingly decided now to leave his camp in earnest, and move into Apulia. He has softened Mrs. banger by a proposal of marriage in which he appears to be perfectly in earnest. In one of the apartments of the castle, the eldest bardy and his son were engaged in earnest conversation. Winter had arrived in earnest and there were other reasons why braeburn had become impossible. They rode too hard, they were too much in earnest, to take the time for byplay. Uncle Billy was off now in earnest, with a squeaking and a shrieking of the catgut. This was no charlatan that spoke to him, but one in earnest who believed what he said. The 'cits' are inconveniently in earnest this year and they're talking of putting up a man who'll cause us trouble. But his dramatization of himself did not indicate that he was not in earnest. They would serve to shew me, she was pleased to say, how much in earnest my father was. The expression was finally used in earnest, and, by euphoric changes, reached its present shape. This man, in spite of his grotesqueness, was quite in earnest, there was no doubting that. Three women mysteriously glided into the shieling, and the dancing began in earnest. You are a rum fellow, hartington, and I never know when you are in earnest and when you are not. And it's surprising ain't it, what a lot of information you can sop up when you do the sponge act in earnest? Show More Sentences This Mejnour is an imposter more dangerous, because more in earnest, than Zanoni. They are tremendously in earnest about their college intrigues and intercollegiate athletic wars. At Thankote, eight miles from katmandu, we dismounted, and commenced in earnest the ascent of the Chandernagiri. And here the schooner began to feel in earnest the breezes of the Kattegat. The Phenicians were very much in earnest about the maintenance of state and of religion. How far Byron was in earnest in this tragicomedy is more difficult to determine. Then came, last of all, the hose themselves, and the actual work of the performer as a trapeze artist began in earnest. After the tenth century the development of the monochord seems to have begun in earnest. Hardy was desperately in earnest, but not so much so as to be careless of rhetorical effect. Summer is here, in earnest, and the last few days have been hot and windless. A poolroom or a policy shop may open now and then, but it will quickly shut again if the police are in earnest. This transposition, common in earnest address, is due to close association of possessive adjective and noun. I began to see we should have a brush for it in earnest, and looked to my priming. His courtly ambition being now again disappointed, he styled himself the melancholy Cowley, and resolved to ruralize in earnest. He then commences in earnest with the wars between Arthur and galiot. From the tone in which the sepoy spoke, I thought he was in earnest. You are not in earnest about the orchids, and you are trying to run away from a mistake instead of clearing it up. They talk of art and are passionately, almost feverishly, in earnest about it. The business of running in to the quayside was beginning in earnest. That the speaker was in earnest there could be no manner of question. Show More Sentences Anyways, CultureTech is already up and running but it kicks off in earnest on Monday. Put aside frivolity and idleness, and apply yourself in earnest. I had just started to live the plan of life in Opus Dei in earnest, when he died suddenly, just 17 hours after he celebrated Mass at the Cenacle. If you do not, in order to show that we are in earnest we shall on that date kill a man on East Thirty-ninth Street. I love the birds and beasts because they are mythologically in earnest. After the cold snap it seemed as if spring had come in earnest. He is really a learned young man, and thoroughly in earnest, though I do not like his manner. For a moment I stood a little puzzled by this curious request, not knowing exactly how to take it, whether humorously or in earnest. He was solemnly in earnest about economy and departmental mismanagement. Eugene,' said he, 'if I could find you in earnest for a minute, I would try to say an earnest word to you. That month the hot weather shut down in earnest, and the dogs slept in the bathroom on the cool wet bricks where the bath is placed. It will be all right with mama after you pass your college examinations and she sees you're in earnest. Now, my little pilgrims, suppose you begin again, not in play, but in earnest, and see how far on you can get before Father comes home. Nor will any body else believe you in earnest in the offer, if I would. About one-tenth in earnest and nine-tenths in jest, we arranged a battery in the Doctor's study, and conveyed thither the Egyptian. The typhoid began in earnest later on, as well as sand-fly fever. With all his jokes and fun abraham lincoln was deeply in earnest. Those who worked in earnest for the Aldine press were chiefly Venetians. I thought you couldn't be in earnest about the nietzschean philosophy. Foma could hardly make out when Yozhov jested and when he was in earnest. Show More Sentences But Lee wuz dead in earnest an' growin' more excited ivery min nit. They DO live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things. Out there under the awning a group of gentlemen stood in earnest talk. Then, if I may so summarise the situation, the joke began in earnest. And to-morrow morning at sunup we begin preparations in earnest. As le bourdon was much in earnest, Pigeonswing was fain to comply. That exceedingly intelligent young nobleman Lord cantrip was in earnest. Hence she, thinking him still in earnest when he had swerved into florid romance, had been dangerously misled. So saying, he dashed into the midst of the squadron of ewes, and began spearing them with as much spirit and intrepidity as if he were transfixing mortal enemies in earnest. In addition, humorous texts contain an inbuilt disclaimer defusing the implications of the humorous situation by announcing that they were meant in jest, not in earnest. Presently they came up to a group of old men in earnest debate. At the time it was made it was still fulfilling its role as a stop-gap model to keep the new factory going until car production could start in earnest after the war. Army helicopter development began in earnest after the Air Force was split away from the Army, and new regulations barred the Army from having any airplanes. The event of to-day has shown me that she is terribly in earnest. All stores should be receiving deliveries from the Co-op Group by the third week in December, with the main refit programme to begin in earnest in January, said a spokeswoman. However, the chances are that having ascertained the young woman to be of unblemished character, he will say to his son, 'I must be quite sure you are in earnest here. He is literally in earnest even in his repeated assertion that from observation of Nature man may learn more of moral truth than from all the books and sages. Nobody wonders that they should prefer the line where their friends can serve them best, or suspects them to be less in earnest in it than they appear. Find more words! 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