Example sentences for: keen

How can you use “keen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Time's and Newsweek 's cover stories describe the cloning process, predicting that the technology will be used on humans in seven years ( Time ) or in one to 10 years ( Newsweek ). Neither is terribly keen on the idea, but both agree that human clones would be normal.

  • Still, critics say the daughter has inherited the father's "gift for fine, lapidary prose [and] carefully controlled language" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). The book wins praise largely because of its keen rendering of the self-indulgent '70s.

  • And you probably also have a keen appreciation for the role of the oral tradition in bringing people together from diverse cultures, nationalities and religions--bridging the gap between our differences and helping to foster peace instead of conflict and misunderstanding.

  • For the really keen shopper, uncut gems, silver jewelry, silks, leatherwear, and furs may be of interest.

  • I even entertained the thought that the placard might have been put there by the diabolical pupils of the school I was going to, who were not at all keen on having a new English teacher.


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