How to Use avidity in a Sentence

avidity

noun
  • Read the rest here, and please celebrate the holidays with avidity—whatever that might mean to you.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Rory’s mouth was shiny with grease and Eustace had his face down almost on the plate, the pair savaging at their food with the shameless avidity of children.
    — Colin Barrett, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
  • From now on, the Post will no longer accommodate the admirably omnivorous avidity of its best readers.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Liberal sentiment was no hindrance to his avidity for sensation.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
  • It is so greatly admired, and read with such avidity in the freeborn Colonies, that the third edition is now printed in Philadelphia.
    — Dr. Matthew Warshauer, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2026
  • To judge by the children's degree of avidity, spinning gourds must have been the Angry Birds of the 19th century.
    — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 26 Nov. 2012
  • But fan avidity doesn’t just materialize.
    — Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The trouble was that Giuliani was cashing in on a reputation for honesty and probity with unseemly avidity.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Plenty of professional athletes harbor deep avidity for vino.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • What Public Enemy was able to do with their third album was create a heavy project that channeled upstanding anger and incandescent avidity.
    — Mark Elibert, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Yet this same avidity also means that if public opinion shifts significantly towards republicanism, vote-hungry politicians will be the first to jump on that tumbrel.
    — Catherine Mayer, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
  • To the role of Bonnie Parker, Dunaway brought the combination of avidity, glamour, and sheer presence that would become her trademarks.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • Mutations may also increase the avidity of the spike protein for the receptor or stabilize the spike, increasing infectivity.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The only remedy is to take away the power, by controlling the selfish avidity of the governor, by the senate and house; of the senate, by the governor and house; and of the house, by the governor and senate.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • The extraordinary avidity of the people kept up the delusion; and the higher the price of Indian and Mississippi stock, the more billets de banque were issued to keep pace with it.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 1 Sep. 2020
  • During the weeks before the opening, the international press gossips about the contestants with the same avidity that film critics devote to the Academy Awards.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
  • The cinematographer, Matthew Libatique, plunges into the tumult with avidity and precision.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
  • No global business depends more on fan avidity than sport, where rabid subcultures of tribal commitment often defy traditional customer segmentation.
    — Rick Burton, Sportico.com, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Honoring the contributions of the enslaved in a city that abounds with layers of historical mysteries can require avidity of purpose and judicious interpretation.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 Mar. 2022

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