Example sentences for: zest

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

  • Folks who believe (even incorrectly) that their net worth is up by 40 percent will spend with zest, and the economy will thrive and grow as a result.

  • According to Shales, Fox (making its first Super Bowl telecast) proved that it could cover the big game with as much "zest and panache" as the bigger networks.

  • After Jane died Cassandra burned several years' worth of letters, and edited all the zest out of what remained.

  • Cato takes pride in having been instrumental, when he was 30 years old, in establishing certain clubs in Rome, "and therefore I used to dine with these companions--in an altogether moderate way, yet with a certain ardor appropriate to my age, which, as time goes on, daily mitigates my zest for every pleasure."

  • Onomatopoeia adds zest to language, from aagh! to zzz ..., but somewhere between print and enunciation, the exact equivalence between sound and sense can get lost.


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