Example sentences for: passionate

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

  • Opponents of nonsexist language show passionate loyalty to principles of etymology and tradition and unexpected respect for grace and style (admittedly frequent victims of inclusion of the feminine pronoun).

  • To reread Grisham--in particular, recent Grisham--is to be struck by how completely he is devoting his celebrity to the articulation of a passionate and decidedly unfashionable liberalism.

  • He cites Byron's lines from Don Juan : There's music in all things, if man had ears, and then sets out with passionate vim to prove the point.

  • A few stick up for the embattled author, arguing that though "the ideas expressed aren't complicated," Purdy "grapples with them with a seriousness that puts more seasoned--and ironic--commentators to shame" ( Publishers Weekly ). Walter Kirn, writing in Time , seems a bit gleeful at the fact that "the brainy nature boy has stormed the capital, panicking the languid sophisticates with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of passionlessness," only to later concede that the book is "an arduous read that would test the syntactical skills of a tenured professor."

  • Raised on the cool medium of television, undergrads are skeptical about passionate ideas, doubtful of genius, and intellectually timid.


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