in earnest

How To Use in earnest In A Sentence

• Thus, in the Western philosophical tradition, occasionalists in the proper sense of the term emerge in earnest in the wake of René Descartes (1596 “ 1650) in the form of “Cartesian occasionalists”. Occasionalism
• I collapsed in laughter and began tickling him in earnest.
• Humor has been well defined as thinking in fun while feeling in earnest. 
• But this pressure can only be effective if the people are in earnest. Times, Sunday Times
• It is, in my judgment, a very laudable course of some churches, that use, for the next three days together, to desire the congregation to join in earnest prayer to God for the opening of the sinner's eyes, and the softening of his heart, and the saving of him from impenitency and eternal death. The Reformed Pastor
• It is more than ten years since ministers turned their attention in earnest to the country's 388 further education colleges. Times, Sunday Times
• Typically, presidential campaigns do not begin in earnest until Labor Day, after both parties' nominating conventions.
• In the City of Elua, the revelry would begin in earnest that day, and by evenfall, the salons of reception would be overflowing in the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers, as Kushiel's Avatar
• She spoke lightly, but it was obvious that she was very much in earnest.
• Billy had said this in joke, for he had never conceived of such a thing as a spring of hot water, but he found that his jest might have been said in earnest, for the spring was almost "bilin '," and caused the Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn