How to Use zeal in a Sentence

zeal

noun
  • Such zeal can lead us to act in ways than are less than godly.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Roots bona fides, goosed with rock zeal and a chip on the shoulder.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 20 June 2022
  • Well, the state’s zeal to kill Zeigler has now spanned five decades.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Bring that zeal home with products that will keep passion aflame year-round.
    — Coastmag, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Za’Darius Smith didn’t hide his zeal to play his former team.
    — Ryan Wood, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The actor hopes to extend this zeal into her film projects as well.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 June 2023
  • Some defended the lights with the same zeal as those who opposed them.
    — oregonlive, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Carl’s zeal for the outdoors began at an early age.
    — Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Your body language can convey a lot about your self-esteem and zeal.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Kauanui said Smith’s zeal rubbed other students the wrong way.
    — New York Times, 25 May 2021
  • In their zeal for lower-end deals, buyers snapped up condos as well.
    — Oshrat Carmiel, Bloomberg.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Still others have sought to prove their zeal by hurling Maoist-era abuse.
    — The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Clorox’s future will be brighter if some of the zeal for deep cleaning persists.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • Let your enthusiasm sell your ideas, not your zeal.
    — Georgia Nichols, Dallas Morning News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The zeal, though, can go too far—especially among those at wit’s end.
    — Abigail Gruskin, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The economic climate may be helping to spur the zeal for deals.
    — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Vance, by contrast, sounds like a true believer with the zeal of a convert.
    — Max Boot, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • There’s no one event that can explain the surge, apart from a wave of speculative zeal.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Trebek's voice was soothing and neutral, yet had a hint of mischievous zeal.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2021
  • And, to be fair, few directors can draw with such zeal from the deep well of the uncanny.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022
  • That, too, may have diminished their zeal to find work, Levanon says.
    — Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 23 Oct. 2020
  • His zeal for hitting has led him to be impatient and undisciplined at the plate at times.
    — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The couple has two daughters and a son who are accustomed to their mother’s zeal.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
  • But the Tide went to work with the zeal of voracious lumberjacks.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Neophitou-Apostolou’s zeal is to be admired.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
  • One of them is played, with true-believer zeal, by Regina Hall.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
  • After all, a zeal of zebras wouldn’t be the weirdest thing found in Maryland.
    — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Hong Kong’s freewheeling media has been among the targets of this zeal.
    — Suzanne Sataline, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2021
  • The purpose for the rules is getting lost in the anti-doping movement’s zeal to enforce them.
    — Ken Goe, oregonlive, 2 July 2021
  • Teammates who spoke to the Register said Roberts’ zeal did not annoy them.
    — Tyler Jett, Des Moines Register, 21 Jan. 2026

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