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Meanings of in earnest in English
Portuguese
seriamente Usage of in earnest in English
1
Moreover, I doubt whether they are really in earnest about this war.
2
Actually I haven't been more in earnest for a good many days.
3
Presently they came to a group of old men in earnest debate.
4
The business of running in to the quayside was beginning in earnest.
5
The war had now begun in earnest; and our advance was unintermitted.
6
By 1846 instruction in needlework had been begun in earnest in England.
7
He searched the house in earnest for the marks of recent history.
8
All preparations for the possibility of reaching Day Zero continue in earnest.
9
With the sunrise the search for the buoy was begun in earnest.
10
The delegations were in earnest session the night before the balloting began.
11
He said the trial was likely to begin in earnest next Tuesday.
12
The fight began in earnest just below Bladensburg in an old field.
13
So the pretty game continued, half in sport and half in earnest.
14
The eating and drinking part of the festival now commenced in earnest.
15
The storm was coming in earnest now; I could hear its roar.
16
The important work of the reconstruction of Egypt now began in earnest.
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In earnest across language varieties
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