How do you use Zeal in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like ardor or ardour, plus the exact meaning.
Zeal in a sentence
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Zeal meaning
- The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
- A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion.
- A group of zebras.
Synonyms of Zeal
Zeal vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Zeal
- The main meaning on this page is: The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest. | A person who exhibits such fervour or tireless devotion. | A group of zebras.
- Useful related words include: ardor, ardour, eagerness, forwardness.
- Possible Dutch translations are: ijver, geestdrift.
- In the example corpus, zeal often appears in combinations such as: zeal to, zeal for, zeal and.
Context around Zeal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Zeal
- In this selection, "zeal" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, entrepreneurial, religious, naked, especially and passion stand out and add context to how "zeal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a naked zeal to make and about his zeal for wanting. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "zeal" sits close to words such as alluded, apostolic and babe, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with zeal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There was an extra zeal about life. (7 words)
Njeri Rionge’s entrepreneurial zeal did not stop there. (9 words)
The festival is celebrated with great zeal and enthusiasm across India. (11 words)
In a similar spirit, it’s possible to fantasize about optimal corporate match-ups on the energy field, pairing up the financial heft and business savvy of established giants with the entrepreneurial zeal of start ups and speciality players. (39 words)
Laughs were had on social media before kick-off as Sky had appeared to attach his head to Steven MacLean's body but the 59-year-old has the zeal of a man half his age. (36 words)
Governor Malam Namadi, can place his council members on probation and set a target as Kano governor did that in order to evaluate their zeal, passion, commitment and readiness to work for Jigawa people. (34 words)
The passion and zeal you had for life and how you infused it in ALL you did! (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
All the students and teachers participated in the programme with zeal and enthusiasm.
Anti-humanist emissaries like Musk and Thiel or May and Knight might preach from the pulpit of pure reason, but their worldviews are suffused with religious zeal, with the promise of enchantment.
But he’s throwing them under the bus in a naked zeal to make money.
Enter Meadows, who leaned in to that role with zeal, especially in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic and during the aftermath of the 2020 election.
Exiled to the United States, he embraced his new country with passionate zeal and yet never abandoned his admiration for European-style realpolitik, just as he never lost his heavy Franconian accent.
Governor Malam Namadi, can place his council members on probation and set a target as Kano governor did that in order to evaluate their zeal, passion, commitment and readiness to work for Jigawa people.
He inherits a monumental task and we all trust that his youthful zeal can drive our causes onward.
He said he took responsibility for last year’s layoffs, blaming his zeal for staffing up on the surge of use early in the pandemic.
In a similar spirit, it’s possible to fantasize about optimal corporate match-ups on the energy field, pairing up the financial heft and business savvy of established giants with the entrepreneurial zeal of start ups and speciality players.
Laughs were had on social media before kick-off as Sky had appeared to attach his head to Steven MacLean's body but the 59-year-old has the zeal of a man half his age.
Much has been said about his zeal for wanting to cut through red tape – a trait that served him well as he navigated the city through recovering from the Northridge earthquake.
Njeri Rionge’s entrepreneurial zeal did not stop there.
She had a zeal for life like no other, a smile that was infectious and cared about being in deep, meaningful relationships with others.
The attainment of higher positions in life is constantly tailored to many driving forces that could be inbuilt and reflections of personal endowments and zeal to succeed.
The festival is celebrated with great zeal and enthusiasm across India.
The passion and zeal you had for life and how you infused it in ALL you did!
There was an extra zeal about life.
The second-half introduction of Lauren James and Daly gave Wiegman’s side more zeal in attack with James teeing up Kelly who fired wide late on.
They bring whatever moral and social values they acquired from their church experience and then apply those values in the political sphere with an evangelical zeal.
This year, Mumbai BJP has taken the initiative to celebrate Gudi Padwa with greater zeal.
Common combinations with zeal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- zeal to 29×
- zeal for 27×
- zeal and 26×
- the zeal 25×
- zeal of 20×
- and zeal 15×
- zeal in 9×
- with zeal 8×
- religious zeal 8×
- his zeal 8×